> >>From what I read, one of the main things about ZFS is "Don't trust the
> >> underlying hardware".  If this is the case, could I run Solaris under
> >> VirtualBox or under some other emulated environment and still get the
> >> benefits of ZFS such as end to end data integrity?
>
> You could probably answer that question by changing the phrase to "Don't
> trust the underlying virtual hardware"!  ZFS doesn't care if the storage is
> virtualised or not.

But worth noting is that, as with for example hardware RAID, if you intend to 
take advantage of the self-healing properties of ZFS with multiple disks, you 
must expose the individual disks to your mirror/raidz/raidz2 individually 
through the virtualization environment and use them in your pool.

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/ Peter Schuller

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