How do you recommend using ZFS to host VMs - create ZVOL's for the guests (possibly even sharing them out via iSCSI), or just use standard file virtual disks on top of ZFS filesystems?

Hello, I am looking for best practices or just other ideas on how folks use ZVOLs with VMware. Historically I have created large ZVOLs, served them up over iSCSI, added them as datastores, and ...

ZFS is the answer There are two excellent file systems that can do this job: ZFS and Btrfs. Btrfs is very new and is still under heavy development so I don’t recommend using it yet.

Learn how to prepare the ZFS storage appliance for the use of Oracle 19c RAC with ASM. ZFS appliance originally is a storage appliance from Oracle and falls under the family of Engineered Systems, but ...

The Debian GNU/Linux distribution will include the ZFS filesystem as a choice from now on, according to an announcement by Petter Reinholdtsen, the developer responsible. ZFS is a filesystem ...

Snapshot Visualization Using Nautilus Showing the Past These few examples barely scratch the surface of showing how ZFS is integrated into Solaris. Either way, eventually, these are some of the ...

Apple's expanded support for ZFS will premiere in Snow Leopard Server before trickling down to the desktop version, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

Cluster File Systems is moving to put Sun’s ZFS file system as the backend on all Linux implementations of their Lustre product. Their announcement is not - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.