i mean explicitly not labs / homes but something you roll in the office you don't own yourself
would you put into production some free solution with allowed commercial use (no eula violation! ) but with community only / limited vendor support?
what would be a game changer for you? say going freenas (free) -> truenas (paid) upgrade?
tnx!!
We use large enterprise systems like EMC VNX, EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, NetAPP FAS, and HP 3PAR SANS.
We Normally use HP 3PAR, HP EVA etc in our environment.
Multi-member EqualLogic SAN
We use exclusively Dot Hill on production systems, with our most critical workloads running on one of several true auto-tiering Dot Hill 5000 Series 10Gb SAN.
It is always about passing the buck in IT, and especially Infrastructure. A colleague of mine once said: "nobody ever got fired for recommending a best-of-breed Enterprise SAN," even when that device is way too expensive and un-obtainium for your company.
I truly admire Openfiler as a open-source SAN solution! Configured properly and run on real server-grade hardware, Openfiler can keep up with the best of them. The question becomes: Are you willing to risk your job on an open-source system you recommended?
Hitachi, IBM, and EMC.
I would never do a "free" storage for production environment in a critical arena. In a non-critical arena? Yeah, possibly, provided I had decent BC-DR strategies in place.
EQL621x and Pure Storage FAx.
Now for the free stuff (without guaranteed service contracts): In testlabs: Yeah - free stuff heavily in use - in critical production systems: NEVER.