Re: VCL, ZFS/clones, VMs and provisioning to ESX

2010-02-10 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi, Sorry for the delayed response. I think this is pretty cool approach and would like to see more about it. I realize that there is not a one-size fits all in the Provisioning Module when it comes to storage options like this. Ideally what needs to happen is we need modularize the storage

VCL, ZFS/clones, VMs and provisioning to ESX

2010-01-27 Thread Matjaž Pančur
We currently use ZFS (currently Nexenta's Developer Edition, www.nexenta.com) as a NFS datastore. All works well, however copying VMDKs during ESX provisioning is bothering me a bit (we use cheap SATA based HW, so scalability of large number of simultaneous requests is an issue). However, with Z