Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy
Hi, On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:37:25 -0400 Allen slackwarew...@comcast.net wrote: You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the people actually using it... Hahaha! I'm sorry to waste peoples tome with basically a giggle, but when I read that line, I just instantly had a mental image of the usual pointy haired moron managers all sitting around a boardroom table saying to one person that FreeBSD being free must have no real value, and then 5 minutes later someone showing then the same OS but with a price tag from a company and then them all shaking their heads yes in agreement because the sticker for the price tag is shiny and looks good. Lol, sorry about the basically useless reply but it brightened my day and maybe by pointing it out, it may brighten someone elses day as well. a long time ago, I did some work for a e-commerce site. Huge machines with the need for a huge firewall. So, the people purchased a huge firewall which was practically a FreeBSD machine based on standard hardware. The client was happy to pay roughly ten times the price of the plain hardware. Erich ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy
You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the people actually using it... Hahaha! I'm sorry to waste peoples tome with basically a giggle, but when I read that line, I just instantly had a mental image of the usual pointy haired moron managers all sitting around a boardroom table saying to one person that FreeBSD being free must have no real value, and then 5 minutes later someone showing then the same OS but with a price tag from a company and then them all shaking their heads yes in agreement because the sticker for the price tag is shiny and looks good. Lol, sorry about the basically useless reply but it brightened my day and maybe by pointing it out, it may brighten someone elses day as well. Oh, and I'm sorry if this email displays bad; I'm writing this email with my phone, and though I love AquaMail as an email client, it does have a few quirks that can be odd. For whatever it's worth to the OP; I've been using FreeBSD for a while, and I bought my first version of it, which was FreeBSD 4.0-Current, in my FreeBSD PowerPak. I was just getting into computers, and I was at Best Buy of all places with my mom, and I just happened to see it on the shelf; The FreeBSD PowerPak with FreeBSD 4.0-Current, and the book The Compete FreeBSD. I still have the box, book, and all 10CDs :-) My next work station is going to be from iX systems, as they have some of the finest computers money can buy in my opinion. -Allen Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:53:05AM +0100, k...@3msg.es wrote: I wonder if anyone has any user stories or blog posts etc, that they could share, that would help provide some corroborating evidence for the suitability of FreeBSD for this use. Thanks for all who responded on and off list. I presented today and the proposal was accepted. The resources and amount and quality of documentation in the FreeBSD handbook was really powerful in demonstrating that a Free software solution could implemented and supported even though the organisation does not have an existing skillset/culture of Free software usage. Regards, Kat -- The introduction of a coordinate system to geometry is an act of violence signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy
On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:36, Kevin Zheng kevinz5...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/30/2015 03:53, k...@3msg.es wrote: I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage implementation. The actual implementation is quite small itself, around 8-12TB usable space presented as iSCSI or cifs, for a TV recording system, with a second device of similar capacity for a backup. A good starting point is FreeNAS [1], a storage solution built on FreeBSD and ZFS. Even if you're not looking at using FreeNAS itself, there are a lot of testimonials and rationale for using FreeBSD as a storage system in general. You may also want to look at the FreeBSD advocacy page [2] if you haven't already. You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the people actually using it... David ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy
Hi Kat, I'm glad you (and your enterprise) are looking at FreeBSD! On 03/30/2015 03:53, k...@3msg.es wrote: I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage implementation. The actual implementation is quite small itself, around 8-12TB usable space presented as iSCSI or cifs, for a TV recording system, with a second device of similar capacity for a backup. A good starting point is FreeNAS [1], a storage solution built on FreeBSD and ZFS. Even if you're not looking at using FreeNAS itself, there are a lot of testimonials and rationale for using FreeBSD as a storage system in general. You may also want to look at the FreeBSD advocacy page [2] if you haven't already. Best of luck, Kevin Zheng [1] http://www.freenas.org/ [2] https://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/ -- Kevin Zheng kevinz5...@gmail.com | kev...@kd0lgh.mooo.com | PGP: 0xC22E1090 ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy
Hi, another attempt would be to promote ZFS and use FreeBSD as the vehicle to bring ZFS into the game for a low price. The alternative would be Sun/Oracle with a nice price tag. Erich On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:53:05 +0100 k...@3msg.es wrote: Hi, I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage implementation. The actual implementation is quite small itself, around 8-12TB usable space presented as iSCSI or cifs, for a TV recording system, with a second device of similar capacity for a backup. However, the organisation is relatively conservative, and little experience in Free software, with a background of purchasing proprietary solutions. Part of this particular solution would be to develop the organisations skills and trust in Free software solutions, to help them going forward in purchasing decisions. I wonder if anyone has any user stories or blog posts etc, that they could share, that would help provide some corroborating evidence for the suitability of FreeBSD for this use. Thanks in advance, Kat ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
