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I disagree. With over 300 servers in AWS, you can almost certainly build a redundant data center with hardware at less than 60% of the costing assuming 3 year depreciation.

Arista and Cisco shouldn't cost top dollar; though anyone buying EMC or Netapp for any new build should have their union card revoked. FreeNAS ftw uber alles.

Source: Did it twice.




Is FreeNAS something people actually run Serious Business, at-scale production datacenters on?

I've run it in my home a few times out of curiosity, and that was never my impression.


Yes. I know of several billion dollar companies that run it in a web facing production operations capacity.


Any good talks or other resources about this sort of use case that you might recommend?

We're... displeased with the current solution that we're using at work for this use case. :)


I've created a subreddit here [0] for discussion. Ask some questions and I'll give you the information I have that's relevant.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScaleFreeNAS/




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