Erast, > Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: > > http://www.nexenta.com/products > > and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is > connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies > AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here: > > http://www.nexenta.com/demos/auto-cdp.html
Very nice job.. Its refreshing to see something I know oh too well, with an updated management interface, and a good portion of the "plumbing" hidden away. - Jim > > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:15 -0800, Vincent Fox wrote: >> Does anyone have any particularly creative ZFS replication >> strategies they could share? >> >> I have 5 high-performance Cyrus mail-servers, with about a Terabyte >> of storage each of which only 200-300 gigs is used though even >> including 14 days of snapshot space. >> >> I am thinking about setting up a single 3511 with 4 terabytes of >> storage at a remote site as a backup device for the content. >> Struggling with how to organize the idea of wedging 5 servers into >> the one array though. >> >> Simplest way that occurs is one big RAID-5 storage pool with all >> disks. Then slice out 5 LUNs each as it's own ZFS pool. Then use >> zfs send & receive to replicate the pools. >> >> Ideally I'd love it if ZFS directly supported the idea of rolling >> snapshots out into slower secondary storage disks on the SAN, but >> in the meanwhile looks like we have to roll our own solutions. >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Jim Dunham Storage Platform Software Group Sun Microsystems, Inc. wk: 781.442.4042 http://blogs.sun.com/avs http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/iscsitgt/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
