On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Brian Kolaci wrote:
I have a customer that is trying to move from VxVM/VxFS to ZFS, however they have this same need. They want to save money and move to ZFS. They are charged by a separate group for their SAN storage needs. The business group storage needs grow and shrink over time, as it has done for years. They've been on E25K's and other high power boxes with VxVM/VxFS as their encapsulated root disk for over a decade. They are/were a big Veritas shop. They rarely ever use UFS, especially in production.
ZFS is a storage pool and not strictly a filesystem. One may create filesystems or logical volumes out of this storage pool. The logical volumes can be exported via iSCSI or FC (COMSTAR). Filesystems may be exported via NFS or CIFS. ZFS filesystems support quotas for both maximum consumption, and minimum space reservation.
Perhaps the problem is one of educating the customer so that they can ammend their accounting practices. Different business groups can share the same pool if necessary.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
