Brandon makes a good point. I think that's an option to pursue if you don't want to risk messing up your Windows install.
If you can, dedicate entire disks, rather that partitions, to ZFS. It's easier to manage. ZFS is managed by the VMs processor in this case, so you will take a bigger performance hit than running on bare metal. That said, my filer exporting ZFS over NFS to 10 busy CentOS clients barely breaks a sweat. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Brandon High <bh...@freaks.com> writes: > >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Blake <blake.ir...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> A big issue with running a VM is that ZFS prefers direct access to >>> storage. >> >> VMWare can give VMs direct access to the actual disks. This should >> avoid the overhead of using virtual disks. > > Can you say if it makes a noticeable difference to zfs. I'd noticed > that option but didn't connect it to this conversation. Also, if I > recall there is some warning about being an advanced user to use that > option or something similar. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
