[zfs-discuss] ZFS as a Gateway for a stroage network

2008-12-13 Thread Dak
be connected with the local network with several GBIT uplinks. 4. To reach high availability I could build a fail-over cluster of the ZFS gateway. What do you think about this architecture? Could the gateway be a bottleneck? Do you have any other ideas or recommendations? Regards, Dak -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS as a Gateway for a stroage network

2008-12-14 Thread Dak
That is very interesting. What kind of hardware did you use? Do you have any statistics about throughput and I/O behavior? Maybe you could provide the detailed architecture. Unfortunately I did not find your e-mail address in your user profile for direct contact. -- This message posted from ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS as a Gateway for a stroage network

2008-12-14 Thread Dak
Bob, thank you very much for your detailed answer. Indeed, Resilvering could be a very difficult situation in such a big storage pool. I could solve this issue by building a pool for each backend node. But then I run into the same problems I have at this moment: The disk space of my server is he

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS as a Gateway for a stroage network

2008-12-14 Thread Dak
Dave, what kind of hardware did you used? I am scared about the bandwith and I/O throughput of the zfs gateway. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/list