Hello, - One way is virtualization, if you use a virtualization technology that uses NFS for example, you could add your virtual images on a ZFS filesystem. NFS can be used without virtualization too, but as you said the machines are windows, i don't think the NFS client for windows is production ready. Maybe somebody else on the list can say... - Virtualization inside solaris branded zones... IIRC, the idea is have branded zones to support another OS (like GNU/Linux/ MS Windows, etc). - Another option is iSCSI, and you would not need virtualization.
Leal [http://www.eall.com.br/blog] > ZFS is the bomb. It's a great file system. What are > it's real world applications besides solaris > userspace? What I'd really like is to utilize the > benefits of ZFS across all the platforms we use. For > instance, we use Microsoft Windows Servers as our > primary platform here. How might I utilize ZFS to > protect that data? > > The only way I can visualize doing so would be to > virtualize the windows server and store it's image in > a ZFS pool. That would add additional overhead but > protect the data at the disk level. It would also > allow snapshots of the Windows Machine's virtual > file. However none of these benefits would protect > Windows from hurting it's own data, if you catch my > meaning. > > Obviously ZFS is ideal for large databases served out > via application level or web servers. But what other > practical ways are there to integrate the use of ZFS > into existing setups to experience it's benefits. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
