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Configuring J4000 and ZFS in Ten Minutes
In a July 2008 article by Dominic Kay, “Configuring J4000 and ZFS in Ten Minutes”, you can see how powerful the combination of low cost JBODs and ZFS can be.
Dominic shows how easy it is have ZFS handle the manage two arrays each contain 12 x 136.72 GB disks - approximately 3.2 TB - in these sections:
- Maximum Space - A Simple Pool
- Maximum Safety - Mirroring The Two Arrays
- Space/Speed Compromise - RAIDZ
- Configuring a Single Array - RAIDZ
- Creating Filesystems & Backing them Up
- Creating a File System
- Backup: Taking a Snaphot
- Rolling back to the snapshot (i.e restoring our backup)
- Saving and Sending A Snaphot
