Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-22 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 06:36:37PM -0400, Toby Thain wrote: On 21-Aug-10, at 3:06 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bill Sommerfeld bill.sommerf...@oracle.com wrote: On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: ... Would I be better off forgoing resiliency for simplicity,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-22 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 21, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Toby Thain wrote: On 21-Aug-10, at 3:06 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bill Sommerfeld bill.sommerf...@oracle.com wrote: On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: ... Would I be better off forgoing resiliency for simplicity, putting all my

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Ross Walker
I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on using a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to serve ZFS over NFS. The storage I have available is provided by Equallogic boxes over 10Gbe iSCSI. I am trying to figure out the best way to provide both performance and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: I am trying to figure out the best way to provide both performance and resiliency given the Equallogic provides the redundancy. (I have no specific experience with Equallogic; the following is just generic advice) Every bit stored in zfs is checksummed

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bill Sommerfeld bill.sommerf...@oracle.com wrote: On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: I am trying to figure out the best way to provide both performance and resiliency given the Equallogic provides the redundancy. (I have no specific experience with

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 21, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ross Walker wrote: I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on using a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to serve ZFS over NFS. Please follow the joint EMC+NetApp best practices for VMware ESX servers. The recommendations apply to any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 21, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ross Walker wrote: I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on using a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to serve ZFS over NFS. Please follow the joint

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ross Walker wrote: I'm planning on setting up an NFS server for our ESXi hosts and plan on using a virtualized Solaris or Nexenta host to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Equallogic storage

2010-08-21 Thread Toby Thain
On 21-Aug-10, at 3:06 PM, Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bill Sommerfeld bill.sommerf...@oracle.com wrote: On 08/21/10 10:14, Ross Walker wrote: ... Would I be better off forgoing resiliency for simplicity, putting all my faith into the Equallogic to handle data