I am trying out FreeNAS 10 (in ESXi 6 for now), seeing if it can replace ESXi + OmniOS. So I created a 10-disk volume and played around with that for a bit. Then installed Omni in another VM and tried to import the volume - thinking that would be peace of cake. No such luck. 3 of the 10 disks was marked as faulted and no way to import the volume. I have no idea what that FreeNAS bunch is doing besides creating a fancy (and to a large extent redundant) UI - but that was scary. I have been using ZFS since the launch of Solaris 10 in 2005, and have had no real problems (besides a scary situation with dedupe in 2010).
I will investigate more, but does anyone else have experience with co-managing ZFS volumes across those two platforms? I have several servers and want to be able to move drives between them not worrying about the origin of the volume.
I will investigate more, but does anyone else have experience with co-managing ZFS volumes across those two platforms? I have several servers and want to be able to move drives between them not worrying about the origin of the volume.