Currently using NFS to access the datastore.

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:10 PM
To: Matt Breitbach
Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

Hi Matt,

On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Matt Breitbach wrote:

> So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm
> wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or
> are they the pre-compressed values".  Google gives me no great results on
> the first few pages, so I headed here.
> 
> This really relates to my VMware environment.  I had some "things" happen
on
> my platform that required me to Storage Vmotion everything off of a
> particular zpool.  When I did that, I saw most VM's inflate to nearly
their
> thick provisioned size.  What didn't swell to that size went to about 2/3
> provisioned (non-Nexenta storage).
> 
> I have been seeing 1.3-1.5x compression ratios on pretty much everything I
> turn compression on for (these are general use VM's -
> webservers,SQL,firewall,etc).
> 
> My question is this - when I'm looking in the file structure, or in the
> datastore browser in VMware, am I seeing the uncompressed file size, or
the
> compressed filesize?
> 
> My gut tells me that since they inflated _so_ badly when I storage
vmotioned
> them, that they are the compressed values, but I would love to know for
> sure.

How are you measuring the space?

Are you using block (iscsi/fc) or NFS to access the datastores from ESXi?
 -- richard

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