Solaris to Linux conversion: Use VxFS or GFS?

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Published on 2010-05-04T13:47:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 13:59 UTC
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We're a Solaris shop looking at RedHat Enterprise Linux and one of the things we're wondering is if we should keep Veritas Volume Manager + FileSystem or go with LVM+ext3 or RedHat's preferred cluster filesystem solution, GFS.

One of the things we like about Veritas is that it can use Veritas Volume Replicator to have a remote copy of important filesystems. This functionality seems to be missing from RedHat, DRBD doesn't seem to be packaged in RHEL...

So my questions are:

  1. Does anybody use VxFS/VxVM/VVR on Linux? Thoughts, experiences? Comparison with LVM+ext3?
  2. Anybody using GFS? Thoughts, experiences?
  3. Do you do remote replication for disaster recovery, and if so, how? Is there a standard RedHat way?

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