On 04/ 8/11 09:49 PM, Mark Sandrock wrote:
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:
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.
Which is all fine and dandy if you have a green field, or are willing to
re-architect your systems. We just wanted to add a couple more x4540s!
--
Ian.
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