[OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

[Hans J Albertsson]

Does anyone have anything beyond own impressions and war stories?

Is anyone collecting statistics on storage solutions sold?

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 12 jan 2015 15:24 skrev "Schweiss, Chip" <chip at innovates.com>:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Andrew Gabriel <
> illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > Since you mention Sun/Oracle, I don't see them pushing ZFS very much
> > anymore, although I am aware their engineers still work on it.
> >
>
> Oracle pushes ZFS hard and aggressively.   I dare you to fill out their
> contact form or download their virtual appliance demo.  Their sales people
> will be calling within the hour.
>
> We just recently went through a bidding war on an HA + DR system with 1/2
> PB useable storage with many vendors including Nexenta and Oracle.  Oracle
> was price competitive with Nexenta and is in my opinion a much more
> polished product.
>
> We still chose to build our own on OmniOS because we could still do that
> for about 1/2 the price of Oracle / Nexenta.  That's less than 1/4 the
> price of 3par/HP, IBM, Dell/Compellent   BTW, our OmniOS build is on the
> exact same hardware, Nexenta would have been.
>
> -Chip
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