On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Eric D. Mudama <edmud...@bounceswoosh.org>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27 at 18:58, Bryan Cantrill wrote: > >> Why would we do this? I'm all for zero-cost endeavors, but this isn't >> zero-cost -- and I'm having a hard time seeing the business case here, >> especially when we have so many paying customers for whom the business >> case for our time and energy is crystal clear... >> >> - Bryan >> > > I don't have a need for a large 7110 box, my group's file serving > needs are quite small. I decided on a Dell T610 running OpenSolaris, > with half the drives populated now and half to be populated as we get > close to filling them up. Pair of mirrored vdevs for performance, > with an SSD cache. > > I'd have loved to have, instead, the nice fishworks gui interface to > the whole thing, and if that existed on something like an X2270, > that's what we would have bought instead of the Dell box. > > Ultimately, I wanted the simplicity of a Drobo, capable of saturating > a Gig-E port or two, in an easy to maintain and administer system. > One and a half out of three ain't bad, but Fishworks GUI on a 4-disk > X2270 would have been a 3 for 3 solution I believe. We just can't > afford to spend $8-10k to "try" a 7110 which is likely complete > overkill for our needs, and we have no expectation of our business > growing into it within the next two years. > > $2k was our absolute ceiling for a trial purchase, and I knew that if > my OpenSolaris experiment didn't work out, I could just repurpose the > Dell box with Debian, EXT3, software RAID and Samba and get a 75-80% > solution. > > Yes, this may not make business sense for Sun-as-structured, but > someone will figure out how to scratch that itch because it's real for > a LOT of small businesses. They want that low cost entry into a > business-grade NAS without having to build it themselves, something > that's a step up from a whitebox 2-disk mirror from some no-name > vendor who won't exist in 6 months. > > --eric > > PS: Not having enough engineers to support a growing and paying > customer base is a *good* problem to have. The opposite is much, much > worse. > So use Nexenta? --Tim
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