> 2 first disks Hardware mirror of 146Go with Sol10 & UFS filesystem on it. > The next 6 others will be used as a raidz2 ZFS volume of 535G, > compression and shareiscsi=on. > I'm going to CHAP protect it soon...
you're not going to get the random read & write performance you need for a vm backend out of any kind of parity raid. just go with 3 sets of mirrors. unless you're ok with subpar performance (and if you think you are, you should really reconsider). also you might get significant mileage out of putting an ssd in and using it for zil. here's a good post from roch's blog about parity vs mirrored setups: http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/when_to_and_not_to _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss