> In my experience, cloning is done for basic provisioning, so how would > you get > to the case where you could not clone any particular VM? > -- richard
Well, a situation where this might come in handy is when you have your typical ISP provider that has multiple ESX hosts with multiple datastores. ESX has limits on how many datastores it can have so cloning filesystems over and over will only get you that far. (16 I believe?). Or a VDI environment for schools for instance? Instead of cloning a complete zfs fs; you can clone the freshmen-gold.vmkd times the new subscribed students? Let's assume the scenario of the school? You have a NFS export containing gold images with different pre installed applications or whatever. How would you rapidly deploy 500 new gold-images? Copy them 500 times? If you clone them on the ESX side; you would also have to copy them. Moreover why copy->dedup if you can prevent the dedup process all together? Since the dedup process in inline; it could affect the storage performance as it goes along. Regards, Jeffry _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
