It's becoming an excellent list for comparison. I agree that ZFS do not win on all of the catagories althought it is being developed far faster then Storage Foundation
By the way ZFS has one clear advantage against Veritas , it's completely free. Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +902123352222 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Mike Gerdts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 5:14 PM To: Sengor Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison On Dec 28, 2007 8:40 AM, Sengor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Real comparison of features should include scenarios such as: > > - how ZFS/VxVM compare in BCV like environments (eg. when volumes are > presented back to the same host) > - how they all cope with various multipathing solutions out there > - Filesystem vs Volume snapshots > - Portability within cluster like environments (SCSI reserves & LUN > visibility to multiple synchronous hosts) > - Disaster recovery scenarios > - Ease/Difficulty with data migrations across physical arrays > - Boot volumes > - Online vs Offline attribute/parameter changes Very good list! > I can't think of more right now, it's way past midnight here ;) How about these? - Integration with backup system - Active-active cluster (parallel file system) capabilities - Integration with OS maintenance activities (install, upgrade, patching, etc.) - Relative performance on anticipated workload - Staffing issues (what do people know, how many hours to train, how long before proficiency) - Supportability on multiple platforms at the site (e.g. Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, ...) - Impact of failure modes (missing license key especially major system changes, on-disk corruption) - Opportunities to do things previously not possible ZFS doesn't win on many of those, but with the improvements that I have seen throughout the storage stack it is somewhat likely that the required improvements are already on the roadmap. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
