<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@xunil.at" target="_blank">lists@xunil.at</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Am <a href="tel:26.08.2013%2018" value="+12608201318">26.08.2013 18</a>:14, schrieb Pandu Poluan:<br> <div class="im"><br> > Well... with a ZFS-backed storage, when you want to create a new VM, all<br> > you have to do is `zfs clone` ;-)<br> <br> </div>Yes, I see those possibilities ;-)<br> <br> That system will run rather important stuff ... so I have to be rather<br> careful. But the bit-rot-prevention/checksumming-features are a plus in<br> this perspective.<br> <br> Do you run such a system? How big?<br> <span class=""></span><br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have to admit that my virtualized servers are not running on top of ZFS-backed storage... because the company already has a quite sizable EMC VNX storage, and it's a shame to not use that behemoth... ;-)<br> <div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">At the moment, the ZFS-backed storage is used to store our email archive system (using MailArchiva), and with more than 15'000 emails per day, it has been performing flawlessly.<br></div><br clear="all">That said, when I was hunting around for information on ZFS before taking the plunge, a *lot* of discussion revolves around using ZFS as the storage back-end for virtualization, be it using KVM or VMware.<br> </div><br clear="all"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Rgds,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><span style="color:black"><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding:5px 0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3px"> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,153);font-size:90%"><font>FdS Pandu E Poluan </font></span> <br> <b><font><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"> ~ IT Optimizer ~</span></font></b><font><b><br></b></font></span><font style="color:gray;font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt"><br></font><span style="color:black"><span style="color:black"><font style="color:gray;font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt"> • LOPSA Member #15248</font></span></span><br> <span style="color:black"><font style="color:gray;font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt"> • </font></span><font style="color:gray;font-weight:bold;font-size:9pt">Blog : <a href="http://pepoluan.tumblr.com" target="_blank">http://pepoluan.tumblr.com</a><br> • Linked-In : <a href="http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan" target="_blank">http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan</a><br><br></font></div></div></span> </div></div>