[OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

[Bryan N Iotti]

At that point your data integrity is only as good as the filesystem on the host OS  (NTFS) , where your OI ZFS drives are stored as files. ZFS can't protect you from much there, even though this can be improved a little if you put each virtual drive on a different disk on the host.

That's why I'd prefer doing it backwards, with an OI host and windows guests. At that point, all your data is on a ZFS filesystem and you also have less driver issues (as long as OI supports the hardware you're running on) since Windows o‎nly has to deal with the VM drivers as a guest.


Bryan


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  Original Message  
From: Harry Putnam
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 08:17
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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

Harry wrote:
> > And in that case it would be virtual drives being created on SSD
> > hardware.

> > Will that setup be likely to be more problematic than a non-virtual
> > install of oi on that hardware?

Bryan N Iotti <ironsides.medvet at runbox.com> writes:

> At that point, OI doesn't see the real disks, so no configuration and
> no possible issues (other than unforeseen surprises in the VBox guest
> additions).
>
> Still, why OI if you can't benefit from ZFS?

I'm not sure I get your meaning there... why would I not be able to
benefit from zfs?

Does what I described as one possible way to go:

(In brief: 2x xeon - 32 gb ram > OS windows 7 >vbox vm > OS oi)

Can you expand on your meaning regarding not benefiting from ZFS in
that scenario?

I'm such a light weight skill/experience wise... I'm probably missing
something fundemental...


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