When looking at ways to improve a ZFS pool, you'd be forgiven for considering a metadata vdev. This is precisely what I did when I wanted to improve the performance by storing all our data on the ...

We've got a new system that is going to act purely as a backup target for a GlusterFS system we run. I've got two Chenbro 60 disk enclosures plugged into a Dell frontend. One enclosure is full and the ...

ZFS on Linux 0.8 (ZoL) brought tons of new features and performance improvements when it was released on May 23. They came after Delphix announced that it was migrating its own product to Linux back ...

Anyone who deals with huge amount of critical data takes steps to ensure redundancy and backup of that data. Big companies do it as a standard practice. But small and medium businesses, SOHO (small ...

Unlike ESXi and its paywalled services, Proxmox lets me use every facility on the virtualization platform without forcing me to drop a fortune on a license. Take Proxmox’s clustering support, for ...

You've read about ZFS, the advanced storage management facility baked into Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix operating system. It is Sun's invention, yet Sun has opened it to the world, including ZFS ...