Hello all, I'd like some practical advice on migration of a
Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper) from aging data disks to a set of
newer disks. Some questions below are my own, others are
passed from the customer and I may consider not all of them
sane - but must ask anyway ;)
1) They hope to use 3Tb disks,
>Hello all, I'd like some practical advice on migration of a
>Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper) from aging data disks to a set of
>newer disks. Some questions below are my own, others are
>passed from the customer and I may consider not all of them
>sane - but must ask anyway ;)
>
>1) They hope to use 3Tb
Urgent interrupt processed, I got back to my questions :)
Thanks Casper for his suggestion, the box is scheduled to
reboot soon and I'll try newer Solaris (oi_151a3 probably)
as well. UPDATE: Yes, oi_151a3 has seen all "2.73Tb" of
the disk, so my old question is resolved: the original
Thumper (Su
You forgot IDEA #6 where you take advantage of the fact that zfs can
be told to use sparse files as partitions. This is rather like your
IDEA #3 but does not require that disks be partitioned.
This opens up many possibilities. Whole vdevs can be virtualized to
files on (i.e. moved onto) rema
