I was thinking that ZFS running on top of something like EXT or NTFS or 
whatever would take away some of its advantages.

When I run ZFS I run ZFS as the main file system on the iron itself.

G

On 11 Nov, 2016, at 7:43, Daniel Carosone <[email protected]> wrote:

> It no more defeats the purpose of zfs than it does to run ZFS on a (single 
> disk) laptop. ZFS gives you snapshots, replication, compression, flexible 
> allocation policy, etc etc. It can detect corruption to help validate your 
> infrastructure.
> 
> And of course you might not be using a single simple storage volume presented 
> by vmware. You might have multiple luns from different vmware storage 
> providers, or access external storage directly such as via iscsi. You might 
> even be providing storage services to other vms.
> 
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