As far as I know, its an effort! Not just for x4275 specifically, but in
general with any other x86 hardware and storage oriented software. A lot
of work required to support a final solution as well. What Nexenta does
with its version of NexentaStor is enabling third-party Partners to
integrate software into a HW/SW solutions ready for production use.
There is even a social network for Nexenta partners, where Partners
talks to each other as well as to Nexenta experts and polishing their
final NexentaStor solutions. Its a process and it works!
List of Partners: http://www.nexenta.com/partners
Bruno Sousa wrote:
I just curious to see how much effort would it take to put the software of
FISH running within a Sun X4275...
Anyway..lets wait and see.
Bruno
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:29:24 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn
<bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Bruno Sousa wrote:
I can agree that the software is the one that really has the added
value, but to my opinion allowing a stack like Fishworks to run
outside the Sun Unified Storage would lead to lower price per
unit(Fishwork license) but maybe increase revenue. Why an increase
in revenues? Well, i assume that alot of customers would buy the
Fishworks to put into they XYZ high-end server.
"Fishworks" products (products that the Fishworks team developed) are
designed, tweaked, and tuned for particular hardware configurations.
It is not like general purpose OpenSolaris where the end user gets to
experiment with hardware configurations and tunings to get the best
performance (but might not achieve it).
Fishworks engineers are even known to "holler" at the drives as part
of the rigorous product testing.
Bob
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