Hello, I'm planning to use VMware Server on Ubuntu to host multiple VMs, one of which will be a Solaris instance for the purposes of ZFS I would give the ZFS VM two physical disks for my zpool, e.g. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, in addition to the VMware virtual disk for the Solaris OS
Now I know that Solaris/ZFS likes to have total control over the disks to ensure writes are flushed as and when it is ready for them to happen, so I wonder if anybody comment on what implications using the disks in this way (i.e. through Linux and then VMware) has on the control Solaris has over these disks? By using a VM will I be missing out in terms of reliability? If so, can anybody suggest any improvements I could make while still allowing Solaris/ZFS to run in a VM? Many thanks, Lewis _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
