Thanks for the update, Bryan! Well done! -- richard On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Bryan N Iotti <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, > > just thought you'd like to know that the Veterinary Sciences Faculty of > the University Of Torino, Italy, is now running an open source PACS > DICOM server based on OpenIndiana, administered by yours truly. > > Pretty much, it revolves around a zone that contains a copy of the > DCM4CHEE open source Java PACS, itself running on JBoss and a PostgreSQL > 9.1 DB. > > Due to budget restrictions, my hardware choice was the HP Proliant > Microserver, with 8GB RAM and 2x250GB mirrored root disks, along with > 2x1TB mirrored 7200RPM SATA drives for the "tank" pool. All of these > disks run a weekly scrub and are SMART monitored. For now we rsync > backups of the data to a mirrored 2TB LaCie network disk (on the other > side of the building is the best I could do), but I'm not too happy with > that solution and would prefer something that is SMART capable. The OS > and zone have been dumped to USB media and are manually backed up (no > modifications are made to the system itself during normal operation, we > really only care about the patient data). > > No hardware issues at all. It recognized everything fine. Deployment > took two hours and then we were loading data (I had preinstalled > everything in the zone at home and migrated it, greatly simplifying the > process). > > It runs very very well and has been performing fine for the past six > weeks. During the summer break we loaded the 640GBs of X Rays, CT and > MRI scans that the hospital has acquired over the past eight years. We > have had no problems so far and are very happy with it. > > This system also carries the Weasis DICOM viewer as one of the > deployable packages, so it has a centralized update point for all the > workstations that use that viewer in conjunction with the PACS. > > The staff is happy because they can finally find all of their diagnostic > images in one place, instead of going through three or four systems by > hand. Makes getting all of your thesis data together a breeze ;). > > I have been asked to give a small presentation on this system both for > the Faculty and for some Vet congresses that are coming up. In the past > I was very clear with the Profs about the fact that this service is made > possible by the unique features of OpenIndiana, with zones, ZFS and its > networking stack, I will be sure to stress this point during the > presentation as well. > > I hope I get the chance to install several similar systems in the future. > > Thank you all, such a system would not exist without your continued effort. > > Bryan > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- ZFS Performance and Training [email protected] +1-760-896-4422 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
