Hello experts, My client is thinking about changing one of their servers running Solaris 8 (NIS Hub to mention something) to a server running Solaris 10. The question that i have given is to check the differences or if you wish the status/stability of changing VXvm with DMP (Dynamic Multi Pathing) to a system with ZFS and MPXio. I have made my share of RTFM but not come any closer to an answer. So now i am turning to you guys! Is ZFS/mpxio strong enough to be an alternativ to VXvm/Dmp today? Has anyone done this change and if so, what was your experiance? Regards, Pierre This message posted from opensolaris.org
Pierre Klovsjo wrote:> > Is ZFS/mpxio strong enough to be an alternativ to VXvm/Dmp today? Has anyone done this change and if so, what was your experiance?I can only speak for the multpathing side but I know that we''ve had plenty of sites change from DMP to Mpxio. Most of the rationale the customers use is that its free and better integrates within Solaris. For example: Mpxio will show only one instance of a multipathed device in system utilities like format.
Thanks for your reply! This is pretty much what SUN said. So, considering the ~3 months that ZFS has been available to us customers (late June release of Solaris 10 6/06) one can only imagine that it is not as stable yet and there will be so some patches to come. Regards, Pierre This message posted from opensolaris.org