May 7, 2010 
[Or "my quest for the ultimate home-brew storage array."] At my day job, we use a variety of storage solutions based on the type of data we’re hosting. Over the last year, we have started to deploy SuperMicro-based hardware with OpenSolaris and ZFS for storage of some classes of data. The systems we have built [...]
Tagged as: Deduplication, Hardware, Nexenta, Open-source, OpenSolaris, Storage, SuperMicro, ZFS
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I’ve been eying ZFS for quite some time. I love the concepts of the filesystem, but am still not a huge fan of Solaris/OpenSolaris (I miss my apt-get, and am just used to the many Linux/GNU-isms.) I may actually have to give it a closer look (most likely via Nexenta, which is essentially Ubuntu with [...]
Tagged as: BackupPC, Deduplication, Nexenta, Open-source, OpenSolaris, Storage, Sun Microsystems, ZFS
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