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NetApp disks in a Solaris zfs zpool

GHALIEDWILLIAMS
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We're about to implement our NetApps in our Solaris environment and I was wondering if there were any guidelines with regards zpool configuration. In particular, I was wondering whether to mirror the disks in the pool or not. From the Solaris Internals Best Practices wiki: "For production environments, configure ZFS so that it can repair data inconsistencies. Use ZFS redundancy, such as RAIDZ, RAIDZ-2, RAIDZ-3, mirror, regardless of the RAID level implemented on the underlying storage device. With such redundancy, faults in the underlying storage device or its connections to the host can be discovered and repaired by ZFS."

This seems to be pretty clear that I should use mirroring. I'm hoping for some links on specific best-practices with Solaris (containers,ZFS) and NetApp.

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