Here is what seems to be the best course of action assuming IP over FC is supported by the HBA's (which I am pretty sure they so since this is all brand new equipment)
Mount the shared disk backup lun on Node 1 via the FC link to the SAN as a non-redundant ZFS volume. On node 1 RMAN (oracle backup system) will read/write its data to /backup as local disk Configure Node 1 to NFS Publish /backup over the IP enabled FC network using the HBA's ip address Nodes 2-4 will then NFS mount over the IP enabled FC connections via the FC switch They will mount at /backup as well So with this we would not be using the gige network to transfer our backup data, All 4 hosts can failover the backups to each other and all our data is stored using zfs to boot, not to mention not having to buy QFS or physically move hardware at all Any forseeable problems with this configuration? Of course I will destroy the exiting ZFS filesystem that is on the disks now prior to setting this up since it might be corruputed This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
