[zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

Malachi de Ælfweald
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:43 -0000

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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:24 AM, gm_sjo <saqmaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/12 Malachi de ?lfweald:
>
> > Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I''d
recommend
> using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for
raidz2.
>  I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot
> swappability.
>
> Sorry, forgot to mention - I have two other 40GB disks that will be
> mirrored for the o/s. I haven''t decided yet whether a hardware
mirror
> would be best for this.


I originally planned on doing hardware raid, then realized that Asus lied
about the capabilities of the board I bought. I''m pretty happy doing
the zfs
mirror for the boot, since I can hotswap it if one of them goes down.


> > Out of curiousity, is there any reason you are going with vmware
rather
> than xVM with the HVM hosts?  I am in the process of setting up xVM on my
> machine, and would be interested to hear your thoughts.
>
> Mainly because of familiarity. This isn''t a test-bed so I
don''t want
> to commit to something and then have to change it in the future.

I''d say that if you are planning on using Windows to host the VMs, then
either vmware or virtualbox is your best bet. If you are looking to have the
OpenSolaris box host the VMs, xVM might be a better choice.


> However, as dramatic as it sounds, this is just at home :-)

Mine too ;)


Malachi
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