Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Jim Dunham
Erast, > Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: > > http://www.nexenta.com/products > > and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is > connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies > AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here: > > http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here: http://www.nexenta.com/demo

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Dale Ghent
On Feb 1, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: > Ideally I'd love it if ZFS directly supported the idea of rolling > snapshots out into slower secondary storage disks on the SAN, but in > the meanwhile looks like we have to roll our own solutions. If you're running some recent SXCE build, you

[zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Vincent Fox
Does anyone have any particularly creative ZFS replication strategies they could share? I have 5 high-performance Cyrus mail-servers, with about a Terabyte of storage each of which only 200-300 gigs is used though even including 14 days of snapshot space. I am thinking about setting up a singl