From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 13:21:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9371065686 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:21:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@claimlynx.com) Received: from na3sys009aog117.obsmtp.com (na3sys009aog117.obsmtp.com [74.125.149.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733518FC14 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([209.85.220.176]) (using TLSv1) by na3sys009aob117.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKTYNcZt7Tq3HVMwnHVChkCdBc4XoQpx+m@postini.com; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:21:43 PDT Received: by mail-vx0-f176.google.com with SMTP id 40so4218205vxi.21 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:21:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.98.234 with SMTP id el10mr1530439vdb.132.1300454502024; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.157.229 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:21:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110318122311.13302c8sfl73pzfo@webmail2.ukgrid.net> References: <20110318122311.13302c8sfl73pzfo@webmail2.ukgrid.net> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:21:41 -0500 Message-ID: From: Thomas Johnson To: a.smith@ukgrid.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HAST + ZFS causes system to shutdown uncleanly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:21:43 -0000 The idea is not to replicate data from production to testing, I probably didn't explain that very well. In our production network, we have a pair of NFS servers attached to a Dell MD3000 disk cabinet. Since I can't directly recreate that setup in ESXi, HAST seems like a good alternative, since it gives me failover access to the same data on my virtualized NFS heads. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:23 AM, wrote: > I am using HAST to replicate a ZFS >> filesystem between two ESXi virtual machines (trying to emulate our >> production systems in a test environment) >> > > If your goal is just to replicate your data to a test environment is there > a reason you are not using ZFS send/receive over Ssh rather than HAST? It > would be a simpler configuration, and therefore should be less error prone > IMO. > > thanks Andy. > > > > -- Thomas Johnson ClaimLynx, Inc. 952-593-5969 x2302