One of the most complex parts of storage in general and ZFS in particular is correctly assessing the amount and types of storage that you will need to meet your requirements. You can of course just purchase what you can afford and hope for the best. But after reading this…
Adventures in ZFS: Crucial M4 Firmware SMART Issue
Let me preface this article by stating that this issue is NOT a ZFS issue or a Solaris issue. Previously I documented a issue in which the Crucial M4 SSD would “hesitate” causing ZFS to see it as faulted. This was promptly fixed in v0002 of their firmware. That issue…
Solaris 11: User Renames Not Simple Anymore
As part of the Solaris 11 Express Installation, you are required to create a named user, which is then the account you can log in as, no root for you. Anyways the problem here is that we had some machines which we subsequently wanted to change the name. Normally this…
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…