You'd run out of LUN IDs on the VMware side pretty quickly (255 from what I remember).
It's also not really VMware best practice for block. -marc On 4/21/10, Robert Milkowski <mi...@task.gda.pl> wrote: > On 21/04/2010 07:41, Schachar Levin wrote: >> Hi, >> We are currently using NetApp file clone option to clone multiple VMs on >> our FS. >> >> ZFS dedup feature is great storage space wise but when we need to clone >> allot of VMs it just takes allot of time. >> >> Is there a way (or a planned way) to clone a file without going through >> the process of actually copying the blocks, but just duplicating its meta >> data like NetApp does? >> >> > > I don't know about file cloning but why not put each VM on top of a zvol > - then you can clone a zvol. ? > > > -- > Robert Milkowski > http://milek.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
