ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management.
This BigAdmin Topic hub gathers information that is important to system administrators pertaining to ZFS.
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ZFS Learning Center - Jan 2008
Provides comprehensive ZFS resources such as an online demonstration, a howto guide for setting up ZFS and Solaris Containers, performance whitepapers, and more.
ZFS Best Practices Guide* - Dec 2008
SolarisInternals wiki entry for ZFS Best Practices including Storage Pools Recommendations, Storage Pool Considerations, General ZFS Administration Information and more.
Using ZFS on a laptop (blog) - June 2007
Instead of backing up your laptop data to a DVD or an external drive, try using a ZFS "snapshot." A ZFS snapshot only stores the data that changed since the last snapshot. Find out more in Erc Kustarz's blog.
ZFS Overview and Guide - (March 2007)
BigAdmin Feature Article: Find out how to use ZFS, the Solaris 10 method for managing storage, to organize physical storage devices into logical pools called storage pools.
Implementing ZFS (XPert Transcript) - (February 2007)
Transcript to the BigAdmin XPert session with Chris Gerhard, Principal Engineer in Sun Service on implementing ZFS in your environment.
Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers
This guide is intended to show a new user the capabilities of ZFS when coupled with Solaris Containers. It describes the assignment of a ZFS file system to a zone, and some of the ZFS administrative tasks possible in such a configuration.
Solaris ZFS Administration Guide (pdf)*
Users can find help to set up and manage Solaris ZFS (available from OpenSolaris or Solaris Express program). The guide, which is intended for users experienced in the Solaris OS or another UNIX version, provides information for both SPARC and x86-based systems.
Why Solaris 10 ZFS is so important
Bill Moore, co-lead of the team that developed ZFS, explains in this podcast why ZFS is such an important feature of Solaris 10.
Sun ZFS Breaks All The Fules*
InfoWorld article explains why ZFS is so powerful and easy to use, and why it make the SunFire X4500 server such a powerful storage device.
