In this ZFS tutorial series,Here we are going to see about new features of ZFS and it’s usage in real production environment. Oracle is continuously developing ZFS and they brought some of the nice features in to Solaris 11 ZFS . Here we are mainly focusing on ZFS deduplication and ZFS encryption mechanisms. ZFS Deduplication is the process of […]
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ZFS – ZPOOL Cache and Log Devices Administration
In this ZFS training/tutorial series,this article will talk about ZFS performance issues.If you didn’t tune the system according to the application requirement or vise-verse,definitely you will see the performance issues.For an example ,some of the applications may have more read requests than write and databases sends more write requests than read.So according the application,you need […]
ZFS – How to Extend ZPOOL and Re-layout ?
One of the prime job of Unix administrators will be extending and reducing the volumes/filesystems according to the application team requirement.In Veritas volume manages,we carry out such a tasks in online without un-mounting the filesystems. To increase or reduce the filesystem, you need to add or remove the disks from the diskgroup in vxvm. But in ZFS, once […]
ZFS – Datasets Administration and Emulated Volumes
A dataset is a child (virtual) filesystem of the parent zpool or parent dataset. Solaris ZFS Datasets are very light weight and easy to administrate. Theatrically speaking, we can create 2^64 datasets in single zpool. Solaris ZFS datasets is similar to VXVM volume but not completely. These datasets doesn’t require any vfstab entry to mount […]
Solaris ZFS – Free Tutorial/Training
Oracle took a brave decision by making ZFS as default root filesystem in Solaris 11 onwards. So ZFS knowledge is must for all of the Solaris administrator who is going to work on Solaris 11.I have worked on many volume manages like SVM(Solaris volume manager),VXVM (veritas volume manager) and LVM (Logical volume manager) but ZFS is one-step ahead compare to other volume […]
Solaris ZFS – Interview Questions
As we know Oracle made ZFS is a default root filesystem from Solaris 11 onwards. This shows their future plans of improving ZFS and making it as worlds best volume manager cum filesystem in near future.Customers would like to have ZFS in their environment since its a inbuilt volume manager and there is no additional operating cost unlike VXVM. They preferred […]
How to add ZPOOL-ZFS to Solaris local zones ?
Oracle is marketing Oracle’s ZFS(Zeta Byte filesystem) is the next generation filesystem. If you say next generation filesystem,will it be enhanced to support OS virtualization ? Yes.It is.Unlike VXVM, we can delegate the entire zpool to local zones.So that we can manage the entire zpool from the local zone level without logging in to global zone.It includes creating […]
Demonstration ZFS snapshots on Solaris
ZFS snapshot is one of the cool features in Solaris .Using the snapshot, we can take the online backup and using “zfs send” feature we can send the zfs snapshot stream to any remote location and receive from there as well.These snapshots are space optimized and snapshot will not hold any disk-space in the initial stage. It will just […]
ZFS quick command reference with examples
ZFS-Zetta Byte filesystem is introduced on Solaris 10 Release.To develop this filesystem cum volume manager,Sun Micro-systems had spend lot of years and some billion dollars money. ZFS has many cool features over traditional volume managers like SVM,LVM,VXVM.Here is the some of the advantages listed below.Advantages:1.Zpool Capacity of 256 zettabytes2.ZFS snapshots,clones and Sending-receiving snapshots3.Lightweight filesystem creation4.Encryption5.Software RAID6.Data integrity 7.Integrated Volume management (No need an additional volume manager)Disadvantages:1.No way […]