From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 09:01:30 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEC8F30B for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from theravensnest.org (theraven.freebsd.your.org [216.14.102.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cloud.theravensnest.org", Issuer "StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4CDD7C for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (cpc16-cmbg15-2-0-cust60.5-4.cable.virginm.net [86.5.162.61]) (authenticated bits=0) by theravensnest.org (8.15.1/8.14.9) with ESMTPSA id t2V8rqK9085863 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:01:26 GMT (envelope-from theraven@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: theravensnest.org: Host cpc16-cmbg15-2-0-cust60.5-4.cable.virginm.net [86.5.162.61] claimed to be [192.168.0.7] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy From: David Chisnall In-Reply-To: <5519B3C0.70202@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:47:35 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20150330085304.GB14538@apple.rat.burntout.org> <5519B3C0.70202@gmail.com> To: Kevin Zheng X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:01:31 -0000 On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:36, Kevin Zheng wrote: >=20 > On 03/30/2015 03:53, k4t@3msg.es wrote: >> I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS=20 >> installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage >> implementation. >>=20 >> The actual implementation is quite small itself, around 8-12TB >> usable space presented as iSCSI or cifs, for a TV recording system, >> with a second device of similar capacity for a backup. >=20 > A good starting point is FreeNAS [1], a storage solution built on > FreeBSD and ZFS. Even if you're not looking at using FreeNAS itself, > there are a lot of testimonials and rationale for using FreeBSD as a > storage system in general. You may also want to look at the FreeBSD > advocacy page [2] if you haven't already. You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes = proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to = management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the people = actually using it... David