On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Wolfraider wrote: > This assumes that you have the storage to replicate or at least restore all > data to a DR site. While this is another way to do it, it is not really cost > effective in our situation.
If the primary and DR site aren't compatible, then it won't be much of a DR solution... :-P > What I am thinking is basically having 2 servers. One has the zpool attached > and sharing out our data. The other is a cold spare. The zpool is stored on 3 > JBOD chassis attached with Fibrechannel. I would like to export the config at > specific intervals and have it ready to import on the cold spare if the hot > spare ever dies. The eventual goal would be to configure an active/passive > cluster for the zpool. You don't need to export the pool to make this work. Just import it on the cold spare when the primary system dies. KISS. If you'd like that to be automatic, then run the HA cluster software. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
