On 18 Oct 2010, at 17:44, Habony, Zsolt wrote:

> Thank You all for the comments.
> 
> You should imagine a datacenter with 
> - standards not completely depending on me.
> - SAN for many OSs, one of them is Solaris, (and not the major amount)

So you get luns from the storage team and there is nothing you can do about it. 
Just use the luns you get as well as you can then. Which is host based mirrored 
zpool.

> - usually level 2 engineers doing filesystem increases.
> - hundreds of physical boxes, dozens of virtuals on one physical
> - ability to move VMs (zones) across physical boxes. (by assigning LUNs to 
> other boxes)

You can do that even if the raid management is done host based with zfs. 

> 
> That probably explains, that I cannot use host based raid management,  it is 
> done by storage as standard.

No it does not. I would still let zfs do the raid management on host side even 
if you can't stop the storage team from raiding it again on the storage box.


> I cannot assign whole disks to boxes, as I get LUNs standardized for all 
> other OSs, and in a size optimized for
> virtual small virtual machines.

You still should mirror across two storage boxes.

Sami

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