A few days ago someone contacted me with an interesting issue with regards to the ZFS automatic snapshots, facilitatedby the time slider service. The Situation OpenSolaris machine with zpool exported. Time slider was working prior to export. Solaris 11 Express fresh install with zpool imported. The Symptoms Basically the core…
Adventures in ZFS: Configuring Fibre Channel Targets
In our environment ZFS has become a critical component of our Storage Infrastructure. We have been able to provision Fibre Channel storage from our ZFS file systems which give us the benefit of data integrity, deduplication, performance through use of the ARC, L2ARC, and ZIL as needed. Additionally the real…
Adventures in ZFS: Faulted Cache Devices
We recently had an issue with Crucial M4 Solid State Disks when using them with ZFS on Solaris 11 Express (snv_151a). Basically the disks were showing a whole bunch of write errors and had been “FAULTED” by ZFS. Now to make this problem even worse when we tried to zfs…
Solaris 11: Mount SMB Share Locally
Currently I have been working on a method of migrating some of our data from Windows file servers to Solaris ZFS CIFS servers, of course trying to retain as much feature parity as possible. Permissions are an issue, however I have worked through most of those issues (look for this…