Peter Schuller wrote: >>> >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.
Or expose enough LUNs to take advantage of it. Two raid LUNs in a mirror for example. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
