Archive for July, 2010
What is RAID-Z?
The mission of ZFS was to simplify storage and to construct an enterprise level of quality from volume components by building smarter software — indeed that notion is at the heart of the 7000 series. An important piece of that puzzle was eliminating the expensive RAID card used in traditional storage and replacing it with [...]
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 11:46 pm by ahl · Permalink
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In: ZFS · Tagged with: Fishworks, HSP, JeffBonwick, RAID, RAID-Z, ZFS
In: ZFS · Tagged with: Fishworks, HSP, JeffBonwick, RAID, RAID-Z, ZFS
A Logzilla for your ZFS box
A key component of the ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool is Logzilla, a very fast device to accelerate synchronous writes. This component hides the write latency of disks to enable the use of economical, high-capacity drives. In the Sun Storage 7000 series, we use some very fast SAS and SATA SSDs from STEC as our Logzilla [...]