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Introduction to Avamar and Data Domain system integration

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Beginning with Avamar 6.0 both Avamar and Data Domain systems are integrated through a single user interface, Avamar Administrator.

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This article provides a series of examples of adding different file systems, raw and disk devices to a non-global zone.

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Most ZFS errors I've experienced generally fall into one of three categories. missing devices, damaged devices and data corruption.

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Because ZFS uses kernel addressable memory, we need to make sure to allow enough system resources to take advantage of its capabilities

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Once the drive has been physically replaced, run the 'zfs replace' command against the device to allow it to be brought back online.

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ZFS is a transactional file system. For each write request, a copy is made of the specified block protected by Copy-On-Write (COW)

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A simple entry on how to discover or set the size for a given ZFS dataset as occasionaly we need to increase the size of a ZFS dataset.

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When disks are added to an existing mirrored or RAID Z pool, the ZFS is resilvered to redistribute the data.

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Max Bruning wrote an excellent paper on how to examine the internals of a ZFS data structure.

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A ZFS owned disk may be promoted to be a quorum disk on current Sun Cluster versions