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So when I was dabbling with the linux VSA, I noticed that the ZFS repository is present. You can't (apparently) actually install zfs, because it is a alternative kernel (4.10?). It would be a plus, IMO, if you supported ZFS. Aside from the checksumming protection, I found (when I had my dozen or so home lab VMs on a ZFS pool with transparent lz4 compression) that I was getting about 50% compression. This translates directly into fewer IOPS required.

We are working on adding zfs to StarWind VSAN for vSphere, but this option is still under development.

Sweet!

Once ZFS is supported, you will definitely learn this at https://www.starwindsoftware.com/releas ... re-vsphere
Just be sure to check that from time to time.

Will do, thanks! I'm curious whether you intend to go with block LUN (e.g. zvol) or file based LUN (e.g. a file on a dataset, which you then share out via iSCSI). I ask because zvol I/O on ZFS on Linux has been quite underperforming, relative to file based I/O.

More details will be available later.

Almost a year now. Any updates?

Thanks for your question.
And, that's perfect timing! We should roll out the build that finally supports ZFS this or next week. Quite a big event...
There's going to be a webinar on ZFS on Thursday https://www.starwindsoftware.com/discov ... astructure. Hope to see you there!

Great! I missed the webinar but i don't see any announcements on the web so i'll patiently wait.

goldserve,

Still working on it -___-. Sorry for the delay.
Stay tuned. Hope it will be rolled out soon.

P.S. The webinar should be added here https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... pe/videos/ soon.