From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 29 09:03:58 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE882AE1D77 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:03:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x233.google.com (mail-wm0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 616021F84 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:03:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x233.google.com with SMTP id r72so47567992wmg.0 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 02:03:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc; bh=bup7GL0yvYFrKWCpzFlJMfTmEFdByKAKAGrK9bmQyVA=; b=Gp2AzvuOtQTIWu9ac0cNZr98GDP9MWHYQzLZOxeTyho6lNkWbYUpwmGL4Z2kpAVLSu nPi6QZI3nkwjWIgWUGAu7Jn4MZ0uHjzZSXZHoOYLil4fl0Ro8Bn+goj0v4STVKV0qzWz xUAFBV7Wv0QxKBfl+6jzOwUEHPJYEnw2oGU5MlbjRkLma1mcNks8KZYlFNClFE7OqYX+ olF7u5LkQ8NbPFmu207Cj/HhN+I3n8iXqag6K35qMqnCYkJrj2s7G7wxJ2o9z7BfdfXj 0EOgPse7mnPcldNG2fOrkm5+0748lJip5YC95oJbLJMkq7pk6xpP1lrxHQ39OPRdq1L4 6ONQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc; bh=bup7GL0yvYFrKWCpzFlJMfTmEFdByKAKAGrK9bmQyVA=; b=eslGGWo3hegGUL2tNDKSFl5X3h5lreGJvjWTrU4TatychXU74sRb8BfbuU45cVYe7U lzN4rBhVxP/yLCoya1tL39uet1lzOIFTmqRW0dK4+TiCvGT+n1SEDcfHiPWp8TZeD1Do gr/BfAt2yiQQ+r84lXknfxS85RlVveYTqyExCG1pLpsi3tPKfViV7tEqFZubjFQIEhsE 6U64HqS6gOKDrQLbrbQMemPdU6zjBG59dt2Fy6uBqkWF3p4oFbF0oXWLnXy+J7fFjd3P p543KVHRFT7BcQiFaw1pY8GFQ5d/BMh8zJo+/NWyX6MA925QY9Opu++yXajkdblN1s9n XPPg== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJI/6qWDNlNfyWsQ7yvVo6CiiFHwRWA5FKMVHix5XXyYxNQvKIZgMm4kKiZG+2Sn+mr3KyLzNh3MNpCYhg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.195.13.115 with SMTP id ex19mr1391680wjd.56.1459242236797; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 02:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.28.46.67 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 02:03:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <56F8C6E0.4070605@allunix.ru> References: <56F8C6E0.4070605@allunix.ru> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:03:56 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ZFS on a NetApp powered VMWare cluster From: krad To: Admin Cc: =?UTF-8?B?5by15pWs5piK?= , FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:03:58 -0000 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 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" >