Torrey McMahon wrote:
ZFS is great....for the systems that can run it. However, any enterprise
datacenter is going to be made up of many many hosts running many many
OS. In that world you're going to consolidate on large arrays and use
the features of those arrays where they cover the most ground. For
example, if I've 100 hosts all running different OS and apps and I can
perform my data replication and redundancy algorithms, in most cases
Raid, in one spot then it will be much more cost efficient to do it there.
Exactly what I'm pondering.
In the near to mid term, Solaris with ZFS can be seen as sort of a
storage virtualizer where it takes disks into ZFS pools and volumes and
then presents them to other hosts and OSes via iSCSI, NFS, SMB and so
on. At that point, those other OSes can enjoy the benefits of ZFS.
In the long term, it would be nice to see ZFS (or its concepts)
integrated as the LUN provisioning and backing store mechanism on
hardware RAID arrays themselves, supplanting the traditional RAID
paradigms that have been in use for years.
/dale
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