On 04/ 9/11 03:20 AM, Mark Sandrock wrote:
On Apr 8, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Evaldas Auryla<evaldas.aur...@edqm.eu> wrote:
On 04/ 8/11 01:14 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
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!
Hi, same here, it's a sad news that Oracle decided to stop x4540s production line.
Before, ZFS geeks had choice - buy 7000 series if you want quick "out of the
box" storage with nice GUI, or build your own storage with x4540 line, which by the
way has brilliant engineering design, the choice is gone now.
Okay, so what is the great advantage
of an X4540 versus X86 server plus
disk array(s)?
One less x86 box (even more of an issue now we have to mortgage the
children for support), a lot less $.
Not to mention an existing infrastructure built using X4540s and me
looking a fool explaining to the client they can't get any more so the
systems we have spent two years building up are a dead end.
One size does not fit all, choice is good for business.
--
Ian.
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