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Mediatemple using Solaris + ZFS

Saturday, March 7. 2009

Metatemple moved from BlueArc to Opensolaris and ZFS for their new storage grid clusters. It´s a really good case to show, how Openstorage can help to solve problems and challenges. S7000 is just our product for people that don´t want to build their own OpenStorage and Management interfaces. You can perfectly build your own OpenStorage out of Sun components and Opensolaris or even other manufacturers components and OpenSolaris. This is the basic idea behind OpenStorage.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 06:02 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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And for the rest of us who want to run OpenStorage on any x86 box they have - take a look at http://www.nexenta.com

#1 erast (Homepage) on 2009-03-07 18:24 (Reply)

I didn´t knew that Nexenta needs such a lame advertisment in other peoples blog. I will comment this, but i will not delete this either. I almost qualified your comment as lame spam. Really, didn´t knew that you need that a lame strategy ...

Oh, one comment: You can install OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 on any hardware you want. And as OpenStorage is just OpenSolaris with a WUI ... so you could use Solaris or Opensolaris. It´s pretty much the same, only with a Solaris version supported by Sun, HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens and Dell for example.

This gets a little bit annoying ...

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-03-07 21:35 (Reply)

I just want to point out that openstorage not exactly equal to opensolaris. Think about it.

#1.1.1 erast (Homepage) on 2009-03-08 09:57 (Reply)

If that were your intention, you should have written is this way ... so it looked like that OpenStorage by Opensolaris is just for Sun Systems. Think about it!

#1.1.1.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2009-03-08 12:13 (Reply)

Why are there no low-end NASes using ZFS? Does OpenSolaris need too much silicon?

#2 Martin (Homepage) on 2009-03-09 00:44 (Reply)

Well ... interesting things ahead, but i can´t talk about it. And the interesting question is: What´s too much silicon today? Atoms are cheap, VIA nanos are cheap, a Gig of memory is cheap ... you could build a low-end NAS without even touching the internals of a standard distribution (either OpenSolaris or Nexenta or MilaX or what ever you want to use here)

#2.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-03-09 05:54 (Reply)

I think there was a low-end NAS using ZFS mentioned in the last edition of c't magazin - using Linux and some userspace ZFS module for it.

#2.1.1 flawed on 2009-03-09 23:13 (Reply)

I think ZFS in userspace is probably not a NAS, but an annoyance...

#2.1.1.1 Rainer (Homepage) on 2009-03-12 01:01 (Reply)

yes - low-end nas with zfs and the usual servers running on it would be most awesome. will build one for myself, but if somebody would just offer a 4 bay preconfigured in the 6-700 euro range I'd jump on it!

and btw: get well soon!

#3 bro on 2009-03-13 17:52 (Reply)

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