Quick question for you ZFS gurus out there....here's a scenario
Consider a typical ZFS set up for dual purpose, VM hosting and also file storage for general LAN. 6 disk striped mirrored vdevs for VMs with 6 15k drives, and the file/backup storage is on 10 2tb drives (3 striped raidz with one hot spare).
I want to expose the user data folder over CIFS to the LAN over a dual port gb NIC connected to the lan, and still only expose the vm storage to the nic connected to the storage switch (not really a 'storage' switch, just a regular cisco 3750).
This is theoretical, i do not have the hardware setup this way yet).
Not a big deal if it doesn't work, but I would think this would be better than connecting a windows server to a LUN and then sharing it out via windows file services.
Consider a typical ZFS set up for dual purpose, VM hosting and also file storage for general LAN. 6 disk striped mirrored vdevs for VMs with 6 15k drives, and the file/backup storage is on 10 2tb drives (3 striped raidz with one hot spare).
I want to expose the user data folder over CIFS to the LAN over a dual port gb NIC connected to the lan, and still only expose the vm storage to the nic connected to the storage switch (not really a 'storage' switch, just a regular cisco 3750).
This is theoretical, i do not have the hardware setup this way yet).
Not a big deal if it doesn't work, but I would think this would be better than connecting a windows server to a LUN and then sharing it out via windows file services.