[Ilugc] NAS solution required
- From: raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx (Rajagopal Swaminathan)
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:13:06 +0530
Greetings,
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote:
We are in search for a 200Tb NAS solution based on linux. I am aware of
FreeNAS and could you suggest vendors who can provide Linux OS based NAS
from your experience in India.
I have a client who was using FreeNAS 8, where it lost the entire
zpool during a power failure.
For storage in the range of 200TB, I would suggest to look for a
vendor to provide the solution (commercial support). Isilon comes to
mind and then there is open-e (Linux based), nexenta is based on
opensolaris with zpool. (I have seen Isilon in operation - I have no
commercial links to any of the products).
Avoid rolling your own unless you really really know the gut level
details of what the heck you are doing.
-- Arun Khan
In the first place, I agree with Arun Khan.
On the other hand I look at it as an opportunity for a consortium of
Open source lovers, benefitters and benfactors.
What OP has as asked for a company.
We have this greatest oppurtunity as a consortium to break the cartel.
We have all the source codes, all the design technologies, components
and the expertise to pull it off including lifelong support for the
product.
This what I was envisioning sometime back When I mentioned an
integrated approach in one of my post where I was more or less
dismissed as a madman by some members.
Reductionism is ok to solve the problem.
We Indians have the expertise -- mechanical, electrical, electronics,
hardware, integration and most importantly the grit -- to deliver
these.
What we lack is a vision. or rather translating a vision into a mission.
Almost all of us are capable of that.
And we must recognise that ans pitch in.
It is ok dollar is hovering around ~70. It is ok to have greed.
But we have to satisfy the need.
I can commit this much now: if a inFLOSS consortium be formed for
solution first and then a product later, We can have a bright future.
Otherwise, we will be remain answering stupid questions about
activating some stupid data card or some stupid linux installation or
stupid jquery and json programming battles with noobie.
What are IITs and NITs doing? Sleeping or worried about their tenure?
Or just producing unemployable youths (Ask any industry person)? Where
is the research on integration and indiansation? After all they are
living off Indian taxpayers money which we pay on every toothpaste and
soap we use (remember "MRP (All taxes included?)).
Above afterall is IMHO,
Thanks and Regards
Rajagopal
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