Comments on: Economics of ZFS http://storagemojo.com/2006/12/24/economics-of-zfs/ Data storage info & analysis Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:33:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Robert Pearson http://storagemojo.com/2006/12/24/economics-of-zfs/#comment-13287 Robert Pearson Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:11:58 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=337#comment-13287 There is an interesting scenario playing out in Storage. Take this phrase from the reply above, "we did it mostly due to ZFS manageability". Contrast this to Marc Farley's comments, "Wade O'Harrow, one of our SE's from the southeast was there and completely in his element as a VMWare animal. He kept describing our technology as "doing the same thing for storage as VMWare does for servers." I admit it took me awhile to figure it out, but I finally did get it. In an EqualLogic SAN, the individual storage systems are really secondary to the logical storage pools that customers create. Volumes can be moved among the underlying storage hardware resources - more or less independently of what those resources happen to be. You need disk drives for virtual storage just like you need processors for virtual servers, but each disk drive just gets less and less important in the scheme of things." And the summation, "I talked to customers from Europe, Asia, South America, Canada and the US who are creating new, large server infrastructures on top of VMWare because it saves huge amounts of administrative time. I'm not joking when I say that we haven't seen a technology shift this radical since refrigeration became widespread." Quotes from: "Full speed ahead into V-Land" http://marcafarley.com/blogfile.html Jeremiah Owyang's writes about the convergence of "enabling" Enterprise Architecture and Web Strategy in a space named the Community. http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/12/22/its-all-about-the-community/ Jesse James Garrett echoes this in his writings about the User Experience. http://www.jjg.net/about/ As does Peter Morville in Information Architect 3.0. http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000149.php We are finally arriving at the "We no longer manage at the spindle level" destination. Seamless, transparent and invisible "enabling Technology. There is an interesting scenario playing out in Storage.
Take this phrase from the reply above, “we did it mostly due to ZFS manageability”.
Contrast this to Marc Farley’s comments, “Wade O’Harrow, one of our SE’s from the southeast was there and completely in his element as a VMWare animal. He kept describing our technology as “doing the same thing for storage as VMWare does for servers.” I admit it took me awhile to figure it out, but I finally did get it. In an EqualLogic SAN, the individual storage systems are really secondary to the logical storage pools that customers create. Volumes can be moved among the underlying storage hardware resources - more or less independently of what those resources happen to be. You need disk drives for virtual storage just like you need processors for virtual servers, but each disk drive just gets less and less important in the scheme of things.”
And the summation,
“I talked to customers from Europe, Asia, South America, Canada and the US who are creating new, large server infrastructures on top of VMWare because it saves huge amounts of administrative time. I’m not joking when I say that we haven’t seen a technology shift this radical since refrigeration became widespread.”
Quotes from:
“Full speed ahead into V-Land”
http://marcafarley.com/blogfile.html

Jeremiah Owyang’s writes about the convergence of “enabling” Enterprise Architecture and Web Strategy in a space named the Community.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/12/22/its-all-about-the-community/

Jesse James Garrett echoes this in his writings about the User Experience.
http://www.jjg.net/about/

As does Peter Morville in Information Architect 3.0.
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000149.php

We are finally arriving at the “We no longer manage at the spindle level” destination. Seamless, transparent and invisible “enabling Technology.

]]> By: Robert Milkowski http://storagemojo.com/2006/12/24/economics-of-zfs/#comment-13251 Robert Milkowski Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:02:37 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=337#comment-13251 In one of our environment we've been using middle-level arrays with SATA drives. Well it turned out that x4500 (aka Thumper) + ZFS is a killer platform when it comes to price/performance and price/storage - so we're buying more. In another environment with external IBM's entry level array we moved from Linux+PCI RAID controller to Solaris + ZFS and the array connected as JBOD. At the end performance is at least the same if not better but we did it mostly due to ZFS manageability (and overall system observability). In one of our environment we’ve been using middle-level arrays with SATA drives. Well it turned out that x4500 (aka Thumper) + ZFS is a killer platform when it comes to price/performance and price/storage - so we’re buying more. In another environment with external IBM’s entry level array we moved from Linux+PCI RAID controller to Solaris + ZFS and the array connected as JBOD. At the end performance is at least the same if not better but we did it mostly due to ZFS manageability (and overall system observability).

]]> By: Robert Pearson http://storagemojo.com/2006/12/24/economics-of-zfs/#comment-13097 Robert Pearson Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:59:25 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=337#comment-13097 Merry Christmas!!! Thanks for the leadership and enlightenment you have provided in 2006. Merry Christmas!!!

Thanks for the leadership and enlightenment you have provided in 2006.

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