[OmniOS-discuss] ZFS pool allocation remains after removing all files

[Rune Tipsmark]

Yeah, I searched and found a few threads about it, seems like it won't happen anytime soon.

I would actually pay for that feature in OmniOS.

Rune

-----Original Message-----
From: Filip Marvan [mailto:filip.marvan at aira.cz] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 3:21 AM
To: omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com
Cc: Rune Tipsmark
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ZFS pool allocation remains after removing all files

Hello,

yes, VAAI could be probably the answer for vmware, and for example NexentaStor have some VAAI support as I know, but there were many problems with that (based on posts from users on Nexenta's forum) like freezing under heavy load and so on.

I gues, it will be very complicated to bring VAAI support to OmniOS.

Filip

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>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 10:02:51 +0000
>From: Rune Tipsmark <rt at steait.net>
>To: Filip Marvan <filip.marvan at aira.cz>,
>	"omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com"	<omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
>Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ZFS pool allocation remains after
>	removing all files
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>Thanks for the input Filip,
>
>I think I found the answer though... no VAAI in OmniOS/ZFS
>
>VAAI provides amongst other features:
>
>Thin Provisioning in ESXi 5.x and later hosts, which allows the ESXi host to tell the array when the >space previously occupied by a virtual machine (whether it is deleted or migrated to another >datastore) can be reclaimed on thin provisioned LUNs.
>
>Next questions is, will VAAI be supported in OmniOS/ZFS
>
>Br,
>Rune