ZFS has some magical features, comparable to NetApp’s WAFL capabilities. One of the less-used on is the ZFS send/receive, which can be utilised as an engine below something much like NetApp’s SnapMirror or SnapVault. The idea, if you are not familiar with NetApp’s products, is to take a snapshot of a dataset on the source,…
I have had some work done lately with NetApp SnapMirror. I have snapped-mirrored some volumes and qtrees and I wanted to monitor their use and behavior over the line. As you can expect, site-to-site replication of data is a fragile thing, especially when done on the level of the storage device, which is agnostic to…
Here’s a little issue. If you were to replicate MS Exchange DB from one machine to another, how/what would you have done? The scenario goes as follows: You have your own domain, and you use, for your own core services AD and MS Exchange for the whole organization. While AD supports some built-in replication, so…
