In Reply to: RE: Wow! posted by phofman on August 16, 2012 at 00:27:00:
ZFS vdevs and zpools are actually quite simple to configure compared to using traditional volume managers and file systems.
You would have to define what you mean by "good performance". It would obviously depend on the platform that you are using ZFS on.
In the case of enterprise storage arrays for the data center using industry standard client protocols (NFS, SMB, FTP, iSCSI, HTTP, WebDAV, FC, iSER, etc) performance can be stellar, even with less expensive lower rpm SATA drives. ZFS can intelligently leverage RAM and hybrid storage pools using flash memory combined with spinning disk to achieve very cost effective 'high performance'.
Snapshots and rebuild times are also significantly faster than traditional RAID arrays.
I had no input into the design of ZFS. I just happen to work for the company that created it. My role, among others, is to help customers architect solutions around ZFS based products (and other products) that we sell.
You can check out the SPC website for comparative storage array benchmarks.
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