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Re: [Xen-users] Storage Recommendations



On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:27 PM,  <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would recommend building a ZFS style storage solution.  You could use the
> free Nexenta Community Edition as the software.  Nexenta Community Edition
> now allows for up to 18TB of storage.
>
> Here is an article from a year ago at Anandtech about building your own ZFS
> storage:
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/3963/zfs-building-testing-and-benchmarking
>
>
> -----Original Message-----


Bear in mind this solution gives a false sense of reliability since
your ZFS server will still be a single point of failure. You'll need
to purchase Nexenta's highly expensive "High Availability" module in
order to have 2 ZFS servers with the domU's sync'ed between them.



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Rudi Ahlers
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