On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > But if I simply buy a normal solaris server and turn on NFS and Samba ... > Acknowledge that I'll do my admin on CLI instead of GUI ... which is > presently working on some random blackbox PC test setup ... then I can do > everything I can think of. My NFS and CIFS tests have been successful. "zfs > send" is supported to transmit a snapshot from one system to another. I can > think of a few features that are missing, such as parallel or distributed > filesystem ... but I can't name anything that's super critical for a small > business.
If you're just talking about "for a small business", depending on what that means of course, you're right, it probably doesn't really matter, and the cost savings is probably more important than anything else. Once you get past a certain point though (be it amount of space, or number of machines, or whatever your measurement of complexity is ...) having a well engineered and dedicated storage appliance w/ a strong (in my experience) support team is really the way to go, regardless of the higher cost. BTW: since you mentioned replication ... "zfs send | zfs recv" is very rudimentary. It's basically a better version of "dump|restore". It's not really directly comparable to something like Snapmirror. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
