I think this is probably true, and I suspect that Sun is also targeting media warehousing shops like some of the big social networking/video sites, where storage is coming online too fast to make manual tuning a sensible thing to do. Look at many enterprise storage graphs showing bytes on the x and time on the y axis, and you see a very scary picture for an admin - unless you can slap storage into a rack with minimal setup time.
Plus, one can yell at the 7000-series when the stress gets to be too much: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 >From another point of view, making ZFS as friendly as possible to 'regular' users - those who *do* buy drives from Fry's - will certainly help drive adoption. Some of these people become the buyers in IT departments later. Lots of Linux tools, while horrendous to administer (LVM), have worked nicely with junky hardware for a long time. So now, we have Linux even in places where it may not make the most sense. My last enterprise job had many terabytes of data sitting on LVM. I'm glad I wasn't the admin for that nightmare. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > > It seems likely that Sun discovered that raw Solaris and system > configuration is too difficult for many "Windows" shops to grasp so > they introduced a simplified appliance product line which is > engineered entirely by Sun, and with a simplified administration > interface which does not require a lot of training to understand. > > Since the product is entirely engineered by Sun, they can ensure that > the provided disk drives and configuration are carefully matched > (based on testing and analysis) in order to offer the best > price/performance ratio. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
