On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's a cracking upgrade Richard. I was hoping Sun would do > something like this, so it's great to see it arrive. > > As others have said though, I think Sun are missing a trick by not working > with Vmetro or Fusion-io to add nvram cards to the range now. In > particular, if Sun were to work with Fusion-io and add Solaris drivers for > the ioDrive, you'd be in a position right now to offer a 48TB server with > 64GB of read cache, and 80GB of write cache > > You could even offer the same card on the smaller x4240. Can you imagine > how well those machines would work as NFS servers? Either one would make a > superb NFS storage platform for VMware: You've got incredible performance, > ZFS snapshots for backups, and ZFS send/receive to replicate the data > elsewhere. NetApp and EMC charge a small fortune for a NAS that can do all > that, and they don't offer anywhere near that amount of fast cache. Both > servers would take Infiniband too, which is dirt cheap these days at $125 a > card, is supported by VMware, and particularly on the smaller server, is way > faster than anything EMC or NetApp offer. > > As a NFS storage platform, you'd be beating EMC and NetApp on price, > spindle count, features and performance. I really hope somebody at Sun > considers this, and thinks about expanding the "What can you do with an > x4540" section on the website to include VMware. > > Ross > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
I believe NetApp has several (valid) patents in this area that may be preventing Sun from doing this. Perhaps that's on the table for cross-licensing negotiation talks? --Tim
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