I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not completly sure of the best scenario. I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array and would like to use zfs on it. Should I create multiple logical disks thru the raid controller then create zfs raid file systems across the LD''s? Can I also migrate zones that are on a ufs file system now into a newly created zfs file system although knowing the limitations with zones and zfs in 06/06? Recommendations? Thanks
Morris Hooten wrote:> I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not > completly sure > of the best scenario. >ok, perhaps we should add some clarifications...> I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array > and would like to use zfs on it. Should I create multiple logical disks > thru the raid > controller then create zfs raid file systems across the LD''s? > >That method will work ok. Many people do this with various RAID arrays. We can''t answer the question "is it the best way?" because we would need more detailed information on what you are trying to accomplish and how you want to make design trade-offs. So for now, I would say it works just like you would expect.> Can I also migrate zones that are on a ufs file system now into a newly > created zfs file system > although knowing the limitations with zones and zfs in 06/06? >Zone limitations with ZFS should be well documented in the admin guides. Currently, the install and patch process is not ZFS aware, which might cause you some difficulty with upgrading or patching. There are alternative methods to solve this problem, but you should be aware of the current limitation.> Recommendations? >Use Solaris 10 9/07. It has more than a year''s worth of improvements and enhancements to Solaris. -- richard
Thanks Richard. Richard Elling wrote:> Morris Hooten wrote: >> I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not >> completly sure >> of the best scenario. >> > > ok, perhaps we should add some clarifications... > >> I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array >> and would like to use zfs on it. Should I create multiple logical disks >> thru the raid >> controller then create zfs raid file systems across the LD''s? >> >> > > That method will work ok. Many people do this with various RAID > arrays. We can''t answer the question "is it the best way?" because we > would need more detailed information on what you are trying to > accomplish and how you want to make design trade-offs. So for now, > I would say it works just like you would expect. > >> Can I also migrate zones that are on a ufs file system now into a newly >> created zfs file system >> although knowing the limitations with zones and zfs in 06/06? >> > > Zone limitations with ZFS should be well documented in the admin > guides. Currently, the install and patch process is not ZFS aware, which > might cause you some difficulty with upgrading or patching. There are > alternative methods to solve this problem, but you should be aware of the > current limitation. > >> Recommendations? >> > > Use Solaris 10 9/07. It has more than a year''s worth of improvements > and enhancements to Solaris. > -- richard >
Enda O''Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
2007-Dec-21 14:15 UTC
[zfs-discuss] 3510 Array and ZFS/Zones
Richard Elling wrote:> Morris Hooten wrote: >> I looked through the solarsinternals zfs best practices and not >> completly sure >> of the best scenario. >> > > ok, perhaps we should add some clarifications... > >> I have a Solaris 10 6/06 Generic_125100-10 box with attached 3510 array >> and would like to use zfs on it. Should I create multiple logical disks >> thru the raid >> controller then create zfs raid file systems across the LD''s? >> >> > > That method will work ok. Many people do this with various RAID > arrays. We can''t answer the question "is it the best way?" because we > would need more detailed information on what you are trying to > accomplish and how you want to make design trade-offs. So for now, > I would say it works just like you would expect. > >> Can I also migrate zones that are on a ufs file system now into a newly >> created zfs file system >> although knowing the limitations with zones and zfs in 06/06? >> > > Zone limitations with ZFS should be well documented in the admin > guides. Currently, the install and patch process is not ZFS aware, which > might cause you some difficulty with upgrading or patching. There are > alternative methods to solve this problem, but you should be aware of the > current limitation.the patch to fix the patch of zones on zfs is pending. 119254/119255 revision 49, we hope to release this in the coming days ( maybe by COB today even )> >> Recommendations? >> > > Use Solaris 10 9/07. It has more than a year''s worth of improvements > and enhancements to Solaris.I think you mean 8/07, ( update 4 ) release? But yes this release is most advised, Enda> -- richard > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Hi, New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use to be no but I''m not sure if that has changed or will change. JOHN -- ********************************************************* John R. Sconiers II, MISM, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA SUN Microsystems TSC National Storage Support Engineer TSC NSSE 708-203-9228 Cell Phone 708-838-7097 access line / fax Chicago, IL USA "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."-James Joyce *********************************************************
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II <John.Sconiers at sun.com> wrote:> > Hi, > New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk > if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use > to be no but I''m not sure if that has changed or will change. > JOHN > > -- > ********************************************************* > John R. Sconiers II, MISM, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA > SUN Microsystems > TSC National Storage Support Engineer > TSC NSSE > 708-203-9228 Cell Phone > 708-838-7097 access line / fax > Chicago, IL USA > "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."-James Joyce > ********************************************************* > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20080303/52d3e01b/attachment.html>
On 3/3/08, John R. Sconiers II <John.Sconiers at sun.com> wrote:> > Hi, > New user question. In ZFS (solaris 10) are we able to "evacuate" a disk > if I later decide to remove it from a ZFS pool. I know the answer use > to be no but I''m not sure if that has changed or will change. > JOHN > > -- > ********************************************************* > John R. Sconiers II, MISM, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA > SUN Microsystems > TSC National Storage Support Engineer > TSC NSSE > 708-203-9228 Cell Phone > 708-838-7097 access line / fax > Chicago, IL USA > "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."-James Joyce > ********************************************************* > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >Let''s try this again: Hasn''t changed yet, they''re working on it though. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20080303/574df40d/attachment.html>