> On 11 Nov 2016, at 13:31, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I see running a convential FS below a more robust one to be a risk factor. > > G >
I think you don’t have to do that. In VMWare you can give disks (devices) to a specific VM, so it is really a “bare metal” control. Some install a VM with a ZFS SAN or NAS software(Nextenta or other) to give local “network” storage (iSCSI or NFS) for other VMs. Of course, it’s not as performant as zones on ZFS in SmartOS, but better than other solutions. Michel > On 11 Nov, 2016, at 12:27, Michael Lacks <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I've wondered this as well for a long time. I've always assumed this was an >> obvious question and have been afraid to ask. >> >> I was under the impression that your "actual" file system is the one on the >> bare metal. Would also like some clarification on this. >> >>> 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. >> >> > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
