From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 30 20:36:19 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 986009C1 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x232.google.com (mail-ig0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5ADE516A for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ignm3 with SMTP id m3so271818ign.0 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:36:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Sp3qk3nKN5yL4EfC8Br39eV15D6Y0VEJs0EkISrgCXU=; b=cMVyUlO17bPdfkwgKhtEw1nbvmWNL+7tYSd7/ub3xqj5joPr5dd/oB64ysFPx+chMl qw5/IBwcaSTYi93hrMQO1JMqU2DB4ZSALb2VqQZIuVs+WQwsBC5SrmJK3skTFBdXjL5e PG43FUKleiLvUt8ptPlcRoUietBsFrthcCkLgl0dvedqPa7w4qqhafEi1tlFt2DKp8vT /8SdiPEGz7ZnDIctNd73HDqpMx9ytTAADGDRxdzELqsWUIiEwKuwMpVWXYr1AZTDbvRR dYv/pa63Wu+bXjJYJuAxeeQF4wW1s+vyBYKbnE3oufVnPBdiZeVm9IPJcvlodNziN5NK F/RQ== X-Received: by 10.107.134.9 with SMTP id i9mr50312660iod.90.1427747778818; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foxtrot.local (99-13-115-50.lightspeed.stlsmo.sbcglobal.net. [99.13.115.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 5sm8552154igr.17.2015.03.30.13.36.17 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5519B3C0.70202@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:36:16 -0500 From: Kevin Zheng User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy References: <20150330085304.GB14538@apple.rat.burntout.org> In-Reply-To: <20150330085304.GB14538@apple.rat.burntout.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:36:19 -0000 Hi Kat, I'm glad you (and your enterprise) are looking at FreeBSD! On 03/30/2015 03:53, k4t@3msg.es wrote: > I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS > installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage > implementation. > > 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. 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. Best of luck, Kevin Zheng [1] http://www.freenas.org/ [2] https://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/ -- Kevin Zheng kevinz5000@gmail.com | kevinz@kd0lgh.mooo.com | PGP: 0xC22E1090