On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of >> > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? >> > >> > Rgds, >> > >> >> Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these. >> >> Some comments: >> >> 1) The machine is already running Gentoo and is reasonably up to date. >> (Within 30 days or so) I didn't want to start from scratch but rather >> just wanted to remove a couple of drives which don't support system >> needs, throw a couple of 1TB hard drives and hopefully I'm up and >> running. >> >> 2) As for the three suggestions, and at a glance they all look very >> capable of supporting my limited needs, I really don't want to learn >> to maintain a server running different tools. (I.e. - anything not >> portage) >> >> I sure like the look of the FreeNAS pages though. >> > > TBH, I have no experience with either FreeNAS or Nexenta, but people I know > in other fora swear by them. > > As to OpenFiler, I've deployed it several times in my office, twice for > production. It's quite easy to manage, especially since it's update-able > from the webGUI. > > There *is* a learning curve, though. Exposing OpenFiler to act as a NAS box > that's accessible from Windows has a few gotchas, but after reading some > wikis, I got it up and running beautifully. > > Rgds, >
I wonder if VMWare monitors this list? I just a couple a minutes ago received an email offering me VMware vSphere Storage Appliance at the low, low cost of $10,180. And that's 40% off list price! :-) - Mark
