Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-07 Thread JZ
long live the king - Original Message - From: "Jason King" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Kees Nuyt wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:41:32 -0500, David Magda

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-07 Thread Jason King
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Kees Nuyt wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:41:32 -0500, David Magda > wrote: > >>On Jan 6, 2009, at 14:21, Rob wrote: >> >>> Obviously ZFS is ideal for large databases served out via >>> application level or web servers. But what other practical ways are >>> there to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-07 Thread JZ
For SuperUsers, and the little envionments, the JAVA embedded thing does all... http://java-source.net/open-source/database-engines ;-) z - Original Message - From: "Kees Nuyt" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Applicat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-07 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:41:32 -0500, David Magda wrote: >On Jan 6, 2009, at 14:21, Rob wrote: > >> Obviously ZFS is ideal for large databases served out via >> application level or web servers. But what other practical ways are >> there to integrate the use of ZFS into existing setups to experi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread David Magda
On Jan 6, 2009, at 14:21, Rob wrote: > Obviously ZFS is ideal for large databases served out via > application level or web servers. But what other practical ways are > there to integrate the use of ZFS into existing setups to experience > it's benefits. Remember that ZFS is made up of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Rob wrote: > Wow. I will read further into this. That seems like it could have great > applications. I assume the same is true of FCoE? > -- > Yes, iSCSI, FC, FCOE all present out a LUN to Windows. For the layman, from the windows system the disk will look identi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Rob
Wow. I will read further into this. That seems like it could have great applications. I assume the same is true of FCoE? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Rob wrote: > Are you saying that a Windows Server can access a ZFS drive via > iSCSI and store NTFS files? A volume is created under ZFS, similar to a large sequential file. The iSCSI protocol is used to export that volume as a LUN. Windows can then format it and put NTFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Rob
I am not experienced with iSCSI. I understand it's block level disk access via TCP/IP. However I don't see how using it eliminates the need for virtualization. Are you saying that a Windows Server can access a ZFS drive via iSCSI and store NTFS files? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Rob wrote: > The only way I can visualize doing so would be to virtualize the > windows server and store it's image in a ZFS pool. That would add > additional overhead but protect the data at the disk level. It would > also allow snapshots of the Windows Machine's virtual fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello, - One way is virtualization, if you use a virtualization technology that uses NFS for example, you could add your virtual images on a ZFS filesystem. NFS can be used without virtualization too, but as you said the machines are windows, i don't think the NFS client for windows is product

[zfs-discuss] Practical Application of ZFS

2009-01-06 Thread Rob
ZFS is the bomb. It's a great file system. What are it's real world applications besides solaris userspace? What I'd really like is to utilize the benefits of ZFS across all the platforms we use. For instance, we use Microsoft Windows Servers as our primary platform here. How might I utilize ZFS