Adventures in ZFS: Configuring Fibre Channel Targets

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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 benefit to ZFS is our storage can run on commodity hardware which reduces the TCO significantly over the major Storage vendors. Now administering ZFS is really quite simple, however getting Fibre Channel can be a bit more work. However after reading this you ought to be able to handle this with your eyes closed, well maybe not with your eyes closed. But you will be much better prepared.

Fibre Channel on the bin

Adventures in ZFS: Configuring Fibre Channel Targets