Hello All; While sometimes not possible, ZFS+Thumper solution is not so far away from replacing expensive to buy and own NetApp like equipment. What people can sometimes forget is Thumper and Solaris are general purpose products that can be spcialized with some efforts.
We had some cases where we had to fine tune X4500 and ZFS for more stability or performance. At the end of the day the benefits well worth the efforts. Best regards Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +902123352222 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorgen Lundman Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:22 AM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Trial x4500, zfs with NFS and quotas. > > I don't know... while it will work I'm not sure I would trust it. > Maybe just use Solaris Volume Manager with Soft Partitioning + UFS and > forget about ZFS in your case? Well, the idea was to see if it could replace the existing NetApps as that was what Jonathan promised it could do, and we do use snapshots on the NetApps, so having zfs snapshots would be attractive, as well as easy to grow the file-system as needed. (Although, perhaps I can growfs with SVM as well.) You may be correct about the trust issue though. copied over a small volume from the netapp: Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on 1.0T 8.7G 1005G 1% /export/vol1 NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT zpool1 20.8T 5.00G 20.8T 0% ONLINE - So copied 8.7Gb, to compressed volume takes up 5Gb. That is quite nice. Enable the same quotas for users, then run quotacheck: [snip] #282759 fixed: files 0 -> 4939 blocks 0 -> 95888 #282859 fixed: files 0 -> 9 blocks 0 -> 144 Read from remote host x4500-test: Operation timed out Connection to x4500-test closed. and it has not come back, so not a panic, just a complete hang. I'll have to get NOC staff to go power cycle it. We are bending over backwards trying to get the x4500 to work in a simple NAS design, but honestly, the x4500 is not a NAS. Nor can it compete with NetApps. As a Unix server with lots of disks, it is very nice. Perhaps one day it can mind you, it just is not there today. -- Jorgen Lundman | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
