On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:29:31PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > On 04/ 8/11 08:08 PM, Mark Sandrock wrote: ... > >I don't follow? What else would an X4540 or a 7xxx box > >be used for, other than a storage appliance? ... > No, I just wasn't clear - we use ours as storage/application servers. > They run Samba, Apache and various other applications and P2V zones that > access the large pool of data. Each also acts as a fail over box (both > data and applications) for the other.
Same thing here + several zones (source code repositories, documentation, even a real samba server to avoid the MS crap, install server, shared installs (i.e. relocatable packages shared via NFS e.g. as /local/usr ...)). So yes, 7xxx is a no-go for us as well. If there are no X45xx, we'll find alternatives from other companies ... > >Guess I'm slow. :-) May be - flexibility/dependencies are some of the keywords ;-) Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
