> Sounds like many of us are in a similar situation. > > To clarify my original post. The goal here was to continue with what was > a cost effective solution to some of our Storage requirements. I'm > looking for hardware that wouldn't cause me to get the run around from > the Oracle support folks, finger pointing between vendors, or have lots > of grief from an untested combination of parts. If this isn't possible > we'll certainly find a another solution. I already know it won't be the > 7000 series. > > Thank you, > Chris Banal >
For us the unfortunate answer to the situation was to abandon Oracle/Sun and ZFS entirely. Despite evaluating and considering ZFS on other platforms it just wasn't worth the trouble; we need storage today. While we will likely expand our existing fleet of X4540's as much as possible with JBOD that will be the end of that solution and our use of ZFS. Ultimately a large storage vendor (EMC) came to the table with a solution similar to the X4540 at a $/GB and $/iop level that no other vendor could even get close to. We will revisit this decision later depending on the progress of Illumos and others but for now things are still too uncertain to make the financial commitment. - Adam _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
