On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Schachar Levin wrote:
> Hi,
> We are currently using NetApp file clone option to clone multiple VMs on our
> FS.
In your use case, how do you isolate one VM from another?
If they are both in the same file system, then they are not isolated.
If they are not isolat
On Wed, April 21, 2010 09:18, Schachar Levin wrote:
> NetApp has the ability to instantly clone single files and that would also
> solve our problem if its somewhere in ZFS road-map (unless the issues we
> have above can be resolved)
Beyond things like dedupe (and compression), ZFS currently does
f I could mount unlimited NFS mounts on ESX it would be good for me, but
there is a 64 nfs datastore limit.
Right now if I copy a big file it can take several minutes. I already tried
having one VM per zfs file system, and snapshot & clone works great, as long
as I stay below 64 NFS mounts.
Note t
If I could mount unlimited NFS mounts on ESX it would be good for me, but there
is a 64 nfs datastore limit.
Right now if I copy a big file it can take several minutes. I already tried
having one VM per zfs file system, and snapshot & clone works great, as long as
I stay below 64 NFS mounts.
No
On Wed, April 21, 2010 02:41, Schachar Levin wrote:
> Hi,
> We are currently using NetApp file clone option to clone multiple VMs on
> our FS.
>
> ZFS dedup feature is great storage space wise but when we need to clone
> allot of VMs it just takes allot of time.
>
> Is there a way (or a planned way
You'd run out of LUN IDs on the VMware side pretty quickly (255 from
what I remember).
It's also not really VMware best practice for block.
-marc
On 4/21/10, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> On 21/04/2010 07:41, Schachar Levin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> We are currently using NetApp file clone option to clone m
On 21/04/2010 07:41, Schachar Levin wrote:
Hi,
We are currently using NetApp file clone option to clone multiple VMs on our FS.
ZFS dedup feature is great storage space wise but when we need to clone allot
of VMs it just takes allot of time.
Is there a way (or a planned way) to clone a file wi
