Well, I don't have a huge amount of experience in Solaris, but I can certainly share my thoughts.
1. BACKUPS Always ensure you have backups of the pool. Ideally stored in a neutral format. Our plan is to ensure that all ZFS stores are also stored: - on tape via star - on an off-site ZFS system, synchronised with zfs send / receive. 2. CHOICE OF HARDWARE Research your hardware and drivers carefully, and test failure modes where possible. ZFS availability depends heavily on the behaviour of the hardware and drivers. My personal preference would be: - Sun hardware (Choose a platform like the x4500, x4540, x4240 designed for running Solaris & ZFS) - Trusted hardware with good Solaris support (eg. Areca raid controllers with manufacturer supplied drivers). - 3rd party hardware using the same chipsets Sun use (Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 sata cards, or the LSI LSISAS3081E-R). While these are probably the recommended cards for ZFS, both have some caveats. The Supermicro one has some hot swap issues. The way SAS drives are labelled means that with the LSI one, in time it will get hard to know which disk is which for fault finding. Personally I wouldn't want to run ZFS on anything outside of that list, and after seeing how well it integrates with the hardware on an x4500, I'm leaning heavily towards preferring it on Sun hardware. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
