Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:03:56 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Admin <admin@allunix.ru> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?5by15pWs5piK?= <frank@csie.io>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS on a NetApp powered VMWare cluster Message-ID: <CALfReydaj_RZa_uHU5x6pWdsFVq=Zid_adjcsAKTK7N8c8Eb0g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56F8C6E0.4070605@allunix.ru> References: <CA%2BvFTf-C_1mFZS7KhRZmvsFKC05-LyTGX_TxcwtN5M=KCUXruw@mail.gmail.com> <56F8C6E0.4070605@allunix.ru>
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apart from the boot environment stuff which is very handy for upgrading stuff irrelevant of the underlying disk architecture ..... I would say test in a safe environment and see if its FUD or not you your usage pattern. On 28 March 2016 at 06:53, Admin <admin@allunix.ru> wrote: > There kinda is no profit in using ZFS this way. It's good when you use > local disks and give those disks fully to ZFS, this way you really don't > have any performance impact except considerable amount of RAM going to ZF= S > needs. But other then that, no, FreeBSD from, say, 9.0-RELEASE works > perfectly with ZFS. If you keep NAS on ZFS shared by ZFS - that also is a > good idea, but if you use ZFS on virtual disks of VMWare then I'd say > that's a waste. > > > 27.03.2016 22:07, =E5=BC=B5=E6=95=AC=E6=98=8A =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1= =82: > > Hi list: >> >> We have about eight freebsd workstations on vmware vsphere 6 cluster who= se >> storage is based on NFS provided by NetApp. >> >> We have been using ZFS on our workstations because we wanted to take >> advantage of the ZFS boot environment; however, recently we are told not >> to >> do so because using ZFS would impose a huge performance impact on our >> workstations. Is that true? Or is there any suggestions on tuning the ZF= S >> on those workstations? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Frank Chang >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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