On 18/03/11 5:56 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > We've been running Solaris 10 for the past couple of years, primarily to > leverage zfs to provide storage for about 40,000 faculty, staff, and > students ... and at this point want to start reevaluating our best > migration option to move forward from Solaris 10. > > There's really nothing else available that is comparable to zfs (perhaps > btrfs someday in the indefinite future, but who knows when that day > might come), so our options would appear to be Solaris 11 Express, > Nexenta (either NexentaStor or NexentaCore), and OpenIndiana (FreeBSD is > occasionally mentioned as a possibility, but I don't really see that as > suitable for our enterprise needs). >
You're not the only institution asking this question; here's a couple of blog posts by Chris Siebenmann: * http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/OurFutureWithSolaris * http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/OurSolarisAlternatives regards --Toby _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
