Did you check EMC's solution - DiskXtender for NAS (Guess a dedicated Linux
server is required) and Centera combinatio? Sure this would not be an
inexpensive solution though.

-Shyam


On 3/22/08, David Magda <dmagda AT ee.ryerson DOT ca> wrote:
>
> On Mar 21, 2008, at 17:04, Reinhard Markus wrote:
>
> > Hello Yaron,
> >
> > Sun Microsystems have a very good HSM solution for there Solaris
> > boxes:
> [...]
> > Have look at:
> > http://www.sun.com/storagetek/management_software/data_management/
> > sam/index.xml
>
> It was recently open-sourced, so going forward it will actually be
> possible to try it out for free as part of the OpenSolaris project
> without having to incur any major expense:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/samqfs/
>
> Sun seems to be aiming to commoditze a lot of technologies in recent
> days.
>
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