Peter Baumgartner wrote: > I'm going to be setting up about 6 virtual machines (Windows & Linux) in > either VMWare Server or Xen on a CentOS 5 box. I'd like to connect to a > ZFS iSCSI target to store the vm images and be able to use zfs snapshots > for backup. I have no experience with ZFS, so I have a couple of > questions before I move forward. > > 1. Is this a feasible setup? If not, is there any way to make something > like this work reliably?
Use some sort of data redundancy on the data. The simplest is a mirrored zpoool. > 2. Since I'd most likely want to restore single machines at a time, is > it best to have a zpool for each machine? I'd recommend one zpool, multiple file systems. That way you can manage each file system (iSCSI target) separately, but still have the flexibility of a large zpool. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
