I'm experimenting with a zfs home server. Running Opensol-11 by way of vmware on WinXP.
It seems one way to avoid all the hardware problems one might run into trying to install opensol on available or spare hardware. Are there some bad gotchas about running opensol/zfs through vmware and never going to real hardware? One thing comes to mind is the overhead of two OSs on one processor. An Athlon64 2.2 +3400 running 32bit Windows XP and opensol in VMware. But if I lay off the windows OS... like not really working it with transcibing video or compressing masses of data or the like. Is this likely to be a problem? Also I'm loosing out on going 64 bit since its not likely this machine supports the AMD V extensions... and I'm short on SATA connections. I only have two onboard, but plan to install a pci style sata controller to squeeze in some more discs. Its a big old ANTEC case so I don't think getting the discs in there will be much of a problem. But have wondered if a PCI sata controller is likely to be a big problem. So, are there things I need to know about that will make running a zfs home server from vmware a bad idea? The server will be serving as backup destination for 5 home machines and most likely would see service only about 2-3 days a week far as any kind of heavy usage like ghosted disc images and other large chunks of data + a regular 3 day a week backup running from windows using `retrospect' to backup user directories and changed files in C:\. A 6th (linux) machine may eventually start using the server but for now its pretty selfcontained and has lots of disc space. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
