Open source storage

So in the past few months there have been some interesting moves
towards Open Source Storage: ZFS on Solaris, and Nexenta's software
appliance.

Has anyone out there deployed it to where it actually does anything
useful? The cost savings are phenomenal, but nothing is truly free,
you pay for it one way or another. On the flip side, its the LAST part
of the stack which is still proprietary, and a part of me thinks its
inevitable.

SC
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Future direction of Solaris?
    ... extra costs as buying from its competitors. ... ZFS is far superior to any native ... The best NAS is a Solaris system with lots of disks and ZFS. ... Zones seem to have dropped out of fashion. ...
    (comp.unix.solaris)
  • Re: Future direction of Solaris?
    ... differences from Solaris 9. ... Linux), but SMF, ZFS and Zones have made it possible to streamline many ... Sun does not make laptops. ... Zones seem to have dropped out of fashion. ...
    (comp.unix.solaris)
  • Re: advice setting up a software RAID-5
    ... I've never bothered to learn to setup the metadb's myself honestly...one ... ZFS now by using the Solaris Express version of Nevada, ... 'import' your ZFS pool to the production release of Solaris. ...
    (comp.unix.solaris)
  • ZFS version list [was ETA for ZFS ver: n]
    ... ZFS version list ... See the Solaris chmod command. ... ZFS Pool Version 14 ... This version includes support for the following feature: ...
    (freebsd-hackers)
  • Re: MEDIA: Suns 128-bit ZFS file system to ship this month
    ... >>available with S10 GA it's certainly not that easy anymore to ... Solaris 10 and also hyping upcoming ZFS and you say that ZFS will ... and if the marketing campaign only mentions one thing ...
    (comp.unix.solaris)