Advanced Storage, ZFS and Large I/O
At the University of Bristol, we are currently in the process of migrating from one storage vendor to another for our block storage requirements. This includes our Oracle databases running on Solaris 10. In an attempt to minimise downtime, a number of other changes were scheduled at the same time, including moving from Fibre Channel to iSCSI and moving file system from UFS to ZFS (this should start ringing alarm bells for many of you)....