What you want to do should actually be pretty easy. On the thumper's, just do your normal raid-z/raid-z2, and export them to the solaris box. Then on the solaris box, you just create a zpool, and add the LUN's one at a time. No raid at all. The system should just stripe across all of the LUN's automagically, and since you're already doing your raid on the thumper's, they're *protected*. You can keep growing the zpool indefinitely, I'm not aware of any maximum disk limitation.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Larry Lui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have a situation here at the office I would like some advice on. > > I have 6 Sun Fire x4550(Thumper) that I want to aggregate the storage > and create a unified namespace for my client machines. My plan was to > export the zpools from each thumper as an iscsi target to a Solaris > machine and create a RAIDZ zpool from the iscsi targets. I think this > is what they call RAID plaiding(RAID on RAID). This Solaris frontend > machine would then share out this zpool via NFS or CIFS. > > My question is what is the best solution for this? The question i'm > facing is how to add additional thumpers since you cannot expand a RAIDZ > array. > > Thanks for taking the time to read this. > > Larry > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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