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Sun ZFS Storage 7120 | High-Capacity, Entry-Level Storage | Oracle Hi All, I have been tasked to evaluate a Shared Storage (will primarily be used as a NAS) and a volume separate for LUNs (two or three LUNS). We have a distributed architecture application which gets a job from multiple computers, process and stores data on a Shared Storage, it can be a NAS or a LUN mounted on a server too. I have checked NetAPP, EMC but I am inclined towards using ZFS. Oracle appliance seems good to me but I have read posts on edugeek and at first it was very promising but some posts mentioned that oracle firmwares are not doing so well with these kits, also the features I am after are Dedupe, SMB Sharing, Active Directory Integration and iSCSI, I have read on these forums that dedup and all these features slow this 7120 down ? 24GB RAM ? still ? On Oracle's website, the price is listed as $24K for 11 x 3TB Disks ? is this true ? 33TeraBytes in 24,000 Dollars ? or once we get to purchase then they add a few bolt-on's to increase the price. What type of disks are they using in 7120? SAS, Near Line SAS or SATA ? Will be grateful if someone could provide suggestions as to whether to leave oracle 7120 aside or to go for it ? We need 16TB of Usable Space and 7120 seems a good purchase consider 11 x 3TB Disks at 24K USD ? Looking forward to your suggestions - Thanks (This is a great forum)

Hi Ozan, I thought this was opensource as you had mentioned, this looks good - will see if we can get a trial download or check out the prices.. Thanks

Hi All, Thank you for your valuable input, I have been able to do a test-lab (just once). Replicated the existing scenario and it all went well...BUT :-) I have a few more questions : a) During our Migration test via ADMT (ADMT installed on the target Domain DC), we had to create a USER on Target DOMAIN (Existing PARENT DOMAIN) and make that a LOCAL ADMIN of CLIENT workstations in order for client computers to migrate as well. Can you advise us of as to how we can populate this Target Domain User to be a LOCAL ADMIN on ALL our COMPUTERS, SERVERS when we move computer accounts from OLD CHILD DOMAIN to PARENT DOMAIN ? I did a test of populating a DOMAIN USER as a LOCAL ADMIN on some client workstations via GPO, but I noticed that it removed every other local-admin on that specific computer, which we cannot afford as we have some high-ups who are (they want to be) local admins of there computers :-) (Yes I know) :-) So, I am looking for a safe way to populate this TARGET Domain User as a Local Admin user on all client computers / servers so that ADMT goes fine. I am going to document the steps I did in my next reply / or update my original question so that you experts can have a look. thanks ! this site is great !

Hi everyone, Hope you all are doing good, I have been tasked to do the following : Migrate our current child domain to root domain, remove child domain completely, a few questions I have are as follows : We have 2 x 2008R2 DCs, both of which also acts as file server (Yes - I have inherrited this just recently:-) ) Goal : To Migrate and consolidate our Child Domain by Migrating Users, Groups, OUs, to ROOT Domain in Same Forest. To Have our FileServers on the Current Hardware and Remove DC's off it I am thinking that I would have to do the following : a) Get a New Server Hardware, Install 2K8R2, DCPROMO to the ROOT Domain (Connected via VPN to ROOT Site) b) Install ADMT with SQL Express on Newly Created DC c) Start Migrating Users, Groups, Computer accounts, OUs to the parent / root domain in same forest How would I demote the 2 x dcs while ensuring there file-structure and permissions are in-tact on the same hardware or do I have to purchase fileserver hardware too for migration ? Will be grateful if someone could provide a step by step as to how to go about this migration. Thanks so much !! Regards Rihatum