Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:47:35 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy Message-ID: <FDA6A596-825B-4D62-9E0B-DB3F4EE7A3F5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5519B3C0.70202@gmail.com> References: <20150330085304.GB14538@apple.rat.burntout.org> <5519B3C0.70202@gmail.com>
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On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:36, Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000@gmail.com> 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
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