On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:29 PM, HUGE | David Stahl<dst...@hugeinc.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > >
Is there a supported way to multipath NFS? Thats one benefit to iSCSI is your VMware can multipath to a target to get more speed/HA... -- Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
