On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > On 04/ 8/11 08:08 PM, Mark Sandrock wrote: >> On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:37 AM, Ian Collins<i...@ianshome.com> wrote: >> >>> On 04/ 8/11 06:30 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: >>>> On 4/7/2011 10:25 AM, Chris Banal wrote: >>>>> While I understand everything at Oracle is "top secret" these days. >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have any insight into a next-gen X4500 / X4540? Does some >>>>> other Oracle / Sun partner make a comparable system that is fully >>>>> supported by Oracle / Sun? >>>>> >>>>> http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/previous-products/index.html >>>>> >>>>> What do X4500 / X4540 owners use if they'd like more comparable zfs based >>>>> storage and full Oracle support? >>>>> >>>>> I'm aware of Nexenta and other cloned products but am specifically asking >>>>> about Oracle supported hardware. However, does anyone know if these type >>>>> of vendors will be at NAB this year? I'd like to talk to a few if they >>>>> are... >>>>> >>>> The move seems to be to the Unified Storage (aka ZFS Storage) line, which >>>> is a successor to the 7000-series OpenStorage stuff. >>>> >>>> http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/unified-storage/index.html >>>> >>> Which is not a lot of use to those of us who use X4540s for what they were >>> intended: storage appliances. >> Can you elaborate briefly on what exactly the problem is? >> >> I don't follow? What else would an X4540 or a 7xxx box >> be used for, other than a storage appliance? >> >> Guess I'm slow. :-) >> > No, I just wasn't clear - we use ours as storage/application servers. They > run Samba, Apache and various other applications and P2V zones that access > the large pool of data. Each also acts as a fail over box (both data and > applications) for the other.
You have built-in storage failover with an AR cluster; and they do NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, HTTP and WebDav out of the box. And you have fairly unlimited options for application servers, once they are decoupled from the storage servers. It doesn't seem like much of a drawback -- although it may be for some smaller sites. I see AR clusters going in in local high schools and small universities. Anything's a fraction of the price of a SAN, isn't it? :-) Mark > > They replaced several application servers backed by a SAN for a fraction the > price of a new SAN. > > -- > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
