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Howdy folks. I''ve a customer looking to use ZFS in a DR situation. They have a large data store where they will be taking snapshots every N minutes or so, sending the difference of the snapshot and previous snapshot with zfs send -i to a remote host, and in case of DR firing up the secondary. However, I''ve seen a few references to the speed of zfs send being, well, a bit

Hey folks, We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : - CentOS on bare metal - CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local disk - CentOS on ESXi with 1 VM running Openfiler to serve disk to other VMs And want to benchmark these 3 scenarios So far all we