Hi! Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs of 500G in raid1, each node sees only its own raid1 volume, I do not have live motion of my virtual machines... and moving the data from one hypervisor to another is a pain task...
Now that I discovered this awesome file system! I want that the ZFS manages all my discs in a network environment. But I don't know the best way to make a pool using all my 20 discs in one big pool with 10T of capacity. My first contact with Solaris, was with the OpenSolaris 2008.11, as a virtual machine (paravirtual domU) on a Linux (Debian 5.0) dom0. I also have more opensolaris on real machines to make the tests... I'm thinking in export all my 20 discs, through the AoE protocol, and in my dom0 that I'm running the opensolaris domU (in HA through the Xen), I will make the configuration file for it (zfs01.cfg) with 20 block devices of 500G and inside the opensolaris domu, I will share the pool via iSCSI targets and/or NFS back to the domUs of my cluster... Is this a good idea? Or it's better install one OpenSolaris per hypervisor, and then, let to the ten opensolaris domUs, the task to export and share the discs by its own way (not using the AoE anymore)? But I imagine that I need only one opensolaris (in HA) with one big pool... Resuming, how is the best way to make a pool with twenty discs of the network? Thanks for any enlightenment! Regards, Thiago _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
