[OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

[John D Groenveld]

In message <ef13fe14548c4db7b157f87caa62b00e at CNSH-DAG1.ISSI.com>, Fred Liu writ
es:
>Nexenta has to co-work with hardware OEMs for nexentastor is just software. As
> long as I know, they rolled out they-called software-defined storage applianc
>es with Dell, PogoLinux, Supermicro etc. I even installed nexentasor on generi
>c x86 hardware(I forgot the detailed configurations..).

With a bit of work, I believe Gea's napp-it will run on top
of OI:
<URL:https://www.napp-it.org/downloads/openindiana_en.html>

Not sure if these are good-enough solutions compared to 
low-volume, high-margin Oracle ZFS Storage appliances
and if not, what features are missing from OI/Nexenta/illumos.

John
groenveld at acm.org