[zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Vincent Fox
Does anyone have any particularly creative ZFS replication strategies they could share? I have 5 high-performance Cyrus mail-servers, with about a Terabyte of storage each of which only 200-300 gigs is used though even including 14 days of snapshot space. I am thinking about setting up a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Dale Ghent
On Feb 1, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: Ideally I'd love it if ZFS directly supported the idea of rolling snapshots out into slower secondary storage disks on the SAN, but in the meanwhile looks like we have to roll our own solutions. If you're running some recent SXCE build, you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Jim Dunham
Erast, Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here: