[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-16 Thread Bryan Wagoner
> Bryan, > > Thanks for your suggestion. I am looking at this as > more of a DR solution. However, I might be able to > use your method if my data can be a little old. > Perhaps this way I could sync the data nightly with a > remote site to make sure that I am no more than 24 > hours behind in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Bev Crair
Folks, We're following up with EMC on this. We'll post something on the alias when we get it. Please note that EMC would probably never say anything about OpenSolaris, but they'll talk about Solaris ZFS Bev. Torrey McMahon wrote: Anantha N. Srirama wrote: For whatever reason EMC notes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Torrey McMahon
Anantha N. Srirama wrote: For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. They should have fixed that in their matrices. It should say something like,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Anantha, Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 4:45:10 PM, you wrote: ANS> For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is ANS> not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS ANS> filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. Nope. For a couple of months

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-09 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
For whatever reason EMC notes (on PowerLink) suggest that ZFS is not supported on their arrays. If one is going to use a ZFS filesystem on top of a EMC array be warned about support issues. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss ma

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-08 Thread Aaron Newcomb
Bryan, Thanks for your suggestion. I am looking at this as more of a DR solution. However, I might be able to use your method if my data can be a little old. Perhaps this way I could sync the data nightly with a remote site to make sure that I am no more than 24 hours behind in the case of a di

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-08 Thread Aaron Newcomb
Torrey, Yes. I am used to dealing with the array based software you mention in your post as well as filesystem based products like AVS and Veritas Volume Replicator. After reading some documentation send to me by Cindy Swearingen (Thanks Cindy!) about zfs send and receive it seems that it is

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-07 Thread Bryan Wagoner
I guess when we are defining a mirror, are you talking about a synchronous mirror or an asynchronous mirror? As stated earlier, if you are looking for an asynchronous mirror and do not want to use AVS, you can use zfs send and receive and craft a fairly simple script that runs constantly and u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-02 Thread Torrey McMahon
Aaron Newcomb wrote: Terry, Yes. AVS is pretty expensive. If ZFS did this out of the box it would be a huge differentiator. I know ZFS does snapshots today, but if we could extend this functionality to work across distance then we would have something that could compete with expensive solutio

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Support for remote mirroring

2007-05-02 Thread Aaron Newcomb
Terry, Yes. AVS is pretty expensive. If ZFS did this out of the box it would be a huge differentiator. I know ZFS does snapshots today, but if we could extend this functionality to work across distance then we would have something that could compete with expensive solutions from EMC, HP, IBM, N