Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 01:32, Rafiu Fakunle wrote: > >>> I was more interested in the functional differences - that >>> is, what services can OF provide that can't be done on >>> a properly configured Centos system? >>> >> I understand the question now. The answer is "absolutely nothing" :). >> >> The benefit of Openfiler however is that you spend less time performing >> admin tasks and have a lot more structure in how those tasks are >> performed. That's why appliance type products exist in the first place. >> Do one thing and do it very well. > > Thanks, but that makes it a problem to justify any extra cost. I > don't think my company cares whether I have to work a little > harder or not, and in fact I'd rather edit a few config > files than deal with the paperwork every year to get > approvals for an extra expense. And since I maintain other > stock Centos boxes it is probably easier to clone them > and be able to move services around than to have something > different with different update repositories. >
Les, I dont agree with you at all on this one! Most companies value the time their employees spend on doing admin and setup jobs. Openfiler gives you an out of the box appliance sort of setup that you are not going to achieve with CentOS raw - without a fair bit of knowledge, and a fair bit of time spent configuring. Given the right amount of time, you could get pretty much any os or distro out there to do anything more or less, required by 99% of the userbase. plus, anyway i dont know about you - but its usually beyond the capability of an average systemadmin to know and understand samba, kernel, lvm, mdadm , iscsi source code ( which we at openfiler's end DO - and that is why Rafiu pointed out the changes etc. ). -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
