Yep, you can take Sun hardware, blast a Nexenta image on it, and have your Solaris / ZFS wrapped in Ubuntu. And if you want the UI and search and other things (most of which we have not used) you can get NexentaStor for a fraction of the 7xxx. But wait, you can also run it on non-Sun hardware and manage the packages all via APT irrespective of the hardware and Sun could have done all this themselves but did NOT. Why?
NexentaStor has been in the market for a while and seems to be doing well. They run on virtually any x86 and PogoLinux is offering an integrated solution with support. And yes prices are much, much less for much more capacity than Sun.
Sun beats them on SSDs though. But some of the software Nexenta has done looks quite cool and we're using it behind ESX including the free Nexenta plug in to discover VMs and do ZFS replications. Have not messed around with the CDP yet or much else in NexentaStor.
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Yep, you can take Sun hardware, blast a Nexenta image on it, and have your Solaris / ZFS wrapped in Ubuntu. And if you want the UI and search and other things (most of which we have not used) you can get NexentaStor for a fraction of the 7xxx. But wait, you can also run it on non-Sun hardware and manage the packages all via APT irrespective of the hardware and Sun could have done all this themselves but did NOT. Why?
NexentaStor has been in the market for a while and seems to be doing well. They run on virtually any x86 and PogoLinux is offering an integrated solution with support. And yes prices are much, much less for much more capacity than Sun. Sun beats them on SSDs though. But some of the software Nexenta has done looks quite cool and we're using it behind ESX including the free Nexenta plug in to discover VMs and do ZFS replications. Have not messed around with the CDP yet or much else in NexentaStor.