Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:53:08 +0000 From: a.smith@ukgrid.net To: Thomas Johnson <tom@claimlynx.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HAST + ZFS causes system to shutdown uncleanly? Message-ID: <20110318135308.17082qlymxou8des@webmail2.ukgrid.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=6dsvi4N9JSfejkOjozZ==rb%2BwpWQZSuzE5Uvo@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110318122311.13302c8sfl73pzfo@webmail2.ukgrid.net> <AANLkTi=6dsvi4N9JSfejkOjozZ==rb%2BwpWQZSuzE5Uvo@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Thomas Johnson <tom@claimlynx.com>: > 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. > Ah ok, well depending on your requirement ZFS send/receive might still work with a bit of scripting, but HAST in theory should be simpler to setup I guess. Anohter option would be a third ESX virtual host running an iSCSI target to provide shared storage to the two test NFS servers... ta Andy.
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