Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-10 Thread wessels
@Jim Shared storage is indeed another interesting point. I don't completely follow what you do with your ESX datastores. VMFS is a clustered FS. ESX doesn't provide any redundancy. Their VMFS best pratices recommend that you should use one VMFS datastore per lun. So all blades running ESX and shari

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-10 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-09-10 12:50, wessels wrote: That's quite some offtopic discussion my original question triggered. Since the original question remains unanswered I'll add my 2cents to "the zfs on a cloud instance" discussion as well. ... So Illumos is certainly not the last word in operating systems like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-10 Thread wessels
That's quite some offtopic discussion my original question triggered. Since the original question remains unanswered I'll add my 2cents to "the zfs on a cloud instance" discussion as well. The main complaints seem to be ram consumption by ZFS and performance issues in a "cloud/vm environment" Fir