HAST + ZFS causes system to shutdown uncleanly?

[a.smith at ukgrid.net]

Quoting Thomas Johnson <tom at claimlynx.com>:

> The idea is not to replicate data from production to testing, I probably
> didn't explain that very well. In our production network, we have a pair of
> NFS servers attached to a Dell MD3000 disk cabinet. Since I can't directly
> recreate that setup in ESXi, HAST seems like a good alternative, since it
> gives me failover access to the same data on my virtualized NFS heads.
>

Ah ok, well depending on your requirement ZFS send/receive might still  
work with a bit of scripting, but HAST in theory should be simpler to  
setup I guess. Anohter option would be a third ESX virtual host  
running an iSCSI target to provide shared storage to the two test NFS  
servers...

ta Andy.