On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:30:32PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > Magesh R wrote: > > We are looking at the alternatives to VXVM/VXFS. One of the feature > > which we liked in Veritas, apart from the obvious ones is the > > ability to call the disks by name and group them in to a disk group. > > > > Especially in SAN based environment where the disks may be shared by > > multiple machines, it is very easy to manage them by disk group > > names rather than cxtxdx numbers. > > > > Does zfs offer such capabilities? > > ZFS greatly simplifies disk management. I would argue that is > eliminates the > need for vanity naming or some features of diskgroups. I suggest you > read through > the docs on how to administer and setup ZFS, try a few examples, and > then ask > specific questions. > > Nit: You confused me with "disks may be shared by multiple machines" > because LUNs > have no protection below the LUN level, and if your disk is a LUN, > then sharing it > leaves the data unprotected. Perhaps you are speaking of LUNs on a > RAID array? > -- richard
Richard, It is rather rare that in "SAN based environment" you are given access to particular disks. :-) Magesh, in ZFS world you create pools. Each pool has its own name. Then, later, you refer to each pool (and filesystem) using its name. Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- O Twoich stronach juz się mówi... Na >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1ad3 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
