Dude you're almost there. Remember the volume is the parent the dataset nests under the volume. It is daunting at first but once you grasped it you'll be golden.

Create extents...

That's the ZFS dataset. Where you create the volume there is another option to create a dataset. SQL is...

shew (8/27/2011)

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Usually, when I get a failover cluster at work prior to installing a SQL Server cluster, all of the operating system and disk work has already been completed before...

may i ask why you dont want to cluster MSDTC??

Hi Shew

so far you are good, you must create the volume and then select the option to create a ZFS dataset. See the attached short doc for more info and...

to change endpoint users you run this against the mirror and the principal

GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::Mirroring TO [XXXXX\XXXXXX]

didnt we already discuss this at the link below?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1165352-146-1.aspx

colin.Leversuch-Roberts (8/26/2011)

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I have plans to build a physical cluster ( no virtualisation ) using windows 2008 R2 storage server - this acts essentially as a shared iscsi storage source. ...

my point is, you want them on disk long enough for them to be persisted to tape, after that delete them!

you really only want to be looking at retaining 8 days on disk, the previous files should be on tape and go into the rotation pool. To keep a months...

how are you handling name resolution while the DC is down

yeah i dont use IE9 its a nasty piece of software to be honest.

Firefox works just great too.

The way you create the volumes\datasets and expose the LUNs has changed significantly...

Typically you will have more than 1 domain controller,...

if you believe someone is changing mirroring modes without authorisation then run a smal server side trace to capture these events, this will help identify who is making the change

Hi

i used Freenas .7.2 which is still available for download. I can supply a short tutorial with screenshots for v8 though if you want it