Hi,
My setup is arguably smaller than yours, so YMMV:
Key Point: I have found that using infrastructure provided natively by
Solaris/ZFS are the best choices.
I have been using CIFS... it's unpredictable when some random windows machines
would stop seeing them. XP/Server 2003/Vista - Too many
Hi all,
I'm about to embark on my first voyage into ZFS (and Solaris, frankly) as it
seems very appealing for a low-cost SAN/NAS solution. I am in the process of
building up a HCL-compliant whitebox server which ultimately will contain
8x1TB SATA disks.
I would appreciate some advice and
Hi,
I'm by no means a ZFS expert, but I do have one comment:
gm_sjo wrote:
- To provide a large slice of storage (~4TB) to a Windows 2003/8 file
server guest on the vmware host, to be accessed by Windows clients over
CIFS.
Solaris provide CIFS support natively too - maybe you can save
Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2
of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used
2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot swappability.
Out of curiousity, is there any reason you are going with vmware rather
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald:
Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend using 2
of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2. I used
2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot swappability.
Sorry, forgot to mention - I have
2008/9/12 Michael Schuster:
Solaris provide CIFS support natively too - maybe you can save yourself the
hassle of going through the vmware + windows combo.
There will be approx. 20 vmware guests running on this infrastructure,
so having a windows guest there for serving files isn't a problem.
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:24 AM, gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald:
Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I'd recommend
using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for raidz2.
I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA
2008/9/12 Malachi de Ælfweald:
I'd say that if you are planning on using Windows to host the VMs, then
either vmware or virtualbox is your best bet. If you are looking to have the
OpenSolaris box host the VMs, xVM might be a better choice.
I'm not - as per my original post, the vmware host
