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

[Andrew Gabriel]

Schweiss, Chip wrote:
> 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.
>   

OK, that's good to hear. During a year of working with very many 
customers in the UK tendering for storage (including some former Sun 
openstorage customers), I only saw Oracle bidding their ZFS storage 
appliance in one case.

I did come across several more cases of customers building their own 
systems using Oracle Solaris 11 on third party hardware, but that's not 
something Oracle pushes.