zfs discuss - Apr 2007 - *** High Praise for ZFS and NFS services ***

Dear ZFS and OpenSolaris people :

    I recently upgraded a large NFS server upwards from Solaris 8. This is a
production manufacturing facility with football field sized factory floors
and 25 tonne steel products. Many on-site engineers on AIX and CATIA as well
as Solaris users and Windows and everything you can shake a stick at.

    Everything in this place must rest in central storage that is bulletproof
and fast. The NFS server is like the companies vault for its valuables and
its future. After serious consideration looking at a number of products I can
say that *nothing* comes close to the value of ZFS and Solaris.  Nothing comes
close to the speed either. With instant quota control, like turning a dial, we
were able to deliver terabytes of storage to all users but only expose the as
much or as little as we want.  On the fly. That impressed everyone involved.

    I received this yesterday.

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Dennis:

I have all the data transferred over and reconfigured an AIX machine for
testing tomorrow.
I was surprised that nobody came to me and noticed there was 200 Gig of
disk space available. Or that performance was much faster.
Our spec''s showed 5x perfomance increase. I also did a seat of the
pants
test ...
Much faster as well. Windows drive mappings were almost instant upon login.
Large CAD models and assembles came up in seconds compared to minutes ...