On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Gordon Ross wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:38 AM, sol <a...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Other than Oracle do you think any other companies would be willing to >>> take >>> over support for a clustered 7410 appliance with 6 JBODs? >>> >>> (Some non-Oracle names which popped out of google: >>> Joyent/Coraid/Nexenta/**Greenbytes/NAS/RackTop/**EraStor/Illumos/???) >>> >>> >> I'm not sure, but I think there are people running NexentaStor on that >> h/w. >> If not, then on something pretty close. NS supports clustering, etc. >> > > You would lose the fancy user interface and monitoring stuff that the > Fishworks team developed for the product. It would no longer be an > "appliance". > > No doubt, Nexenta has developed new cool stuff for NexentaStor. > > As others have said, only Oracle is capable of supporting the system as > the original product. It could be re-installed to become something else. > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/** > users/bfriesen/ <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<http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss> > At former $work we used a 3rd party support company for Sun support they had a stock of Sun parts, loads of Sun knowledge and worked as a proxy to Sun support when needed. On more fiddly issues they just had Sun work with us directly. I dont know how small a contract they do or if they even offer support outside of the UK but it could be worth a try there site is http://www.scc.com/ . There are probably other company's that do 3rd party sun support too Ritchie -- <-- http://23.me.uk/2 --> <--Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. -->
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