We have Panasas and are getting pretty good performance.
I am pretty happy as a DBA on this. Love that .snapshot directory.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Van Dolson" rvandolson@esri.com To: "Fletcher Cocquyt" fcocquyt@stanford.edu Cc: "toasters@teaparty.net Lists" toasters@teaparty.net Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 6:37:56 PM Subject: Re: Evolution
We use Nexenta. I don't know if you can say it 'complements' NetApp, but it does have some fundamental similarities. You're going to make a bit of a sacrifice on the hardware support side, but that's somewhat expected given how much less you are spending. Stick with the HCL and you'll mostly be OK.
Overall though, am a huge fan of ZFS. So far the trade offs have been worth it.
I'd love to find a way to do a "Software SnapVault Target", though (like OSSV reversed). :)
Ray
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:04:00PM -0800, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote:
native ZFS or some kind of re-packaged ZFS like Nexenta?
thanks
On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo xemacs5@gmail.com wrote:
I have found ZFS works well, I like the ability to run the "zfs scrub" command and know for sure, that the filesystem is intact. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Fletcher Cocquyt <fcocquyt@stanford.edu> wrote: Netapp is great and always will be 1st tier storage, But for many of our new use cases (SMB customers, IOPS over capacity etc) we are looking for lower cost solutions to compliment (work well with support wise) our huge ONTAP base. What other solutions have others found compliments their Netapp ecosystem ? (NB: we are running multiple 8.1.2 (7 mode) clusters and value the robust snapmirror, vfiler migration featureset thanks
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