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