The real benefit of the of using a separate zvol for each vm is the instantaneous cloning of a machine, and the clone will take almost no additional space initially. In our case we build a template VM and then provision our development machines from this. However the limit of 32 nfs mounts per esx machine is kind of a bummer.
-----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org on behalf of Steve Madden Sent: Wed 7/1/2009 8:46 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, ESX ,and NFS. oh my! Why the use of zvols, why not just; zfs create my_pool/group1 zfs create my_pool/group1/vm1 zfs create my_pool/group1/vm2 and export my_pool/group1 If you don't want the people in group1 to see vm2 anymore just zfs rename it to a different group. I'll admit I am coming into this green - but if you're not doing iscsi, why zvols? SM. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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