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It's interesting, if dated piece of enterprise kit....
Now .. the major problem will be backing it up.
All my current backup is based around zfs snapshots, and of course this proprietary thing doesn't use or expose anything like zfs. I'm thinking I might buy another server, run freebsd on it, and mount the SAN on that over iscsi. Then use zfs on that too export volumes over either NFS or iscsi again to the compute layer. -
Then I can use zfs snaps for backups, and add some ssd for read write cache
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It's always difficult to integrate proprietary enterprise stuffz into a free software infrastructure. Especially if you DON'T DRINK THE KOOLAID.
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Also I am looking for feedback and good ideas about this... So please Repost or comment? Thx
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I mean I could just export each disk from the DotHill as as separate iscsi Lun and then use them as zfs vdev... But that looks overcomplicated
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I think the best way to roll with these adhoc integrations is to "go with the flow" in the way the individual designers have considered they should work
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Look ... I'm sure all this was solved a half decade ago... Can someone just send me the answer! Please
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