I have been leading the charge in my IT department to evaluate the Sun Fire X45x0 as a commodity storage platform, in order to leverage capacity and cost against our current NAS solution which is backed by EMC Fiberchannel SAN. For our corporate environments, it would seem like a single machine would supply more than triple our current usable capacity on our NAS, and the cost is significantly less per GB. I am also working to prove the multi-protocol shared storage capabilities of the Thumper significantly out perform those of our current solution (which is notoriously bad from the end user perspective).
The EMC solution is completely redundant with no single point of failure. What are some good strategies for providing a Thumper solution with no single point of failure? The storage folks are poo-poo'ing this concept because of the chances for an Operating System failure... I'd like to come up with some reasonable methods to put them in their place :) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
