As I originally blogged, I was hoping to use EMC snapshots to perform server-less/network-less backups…
To make a long story short, Replication Manager is useless for LUNs with ZFS. According to EMC, this won’t change in the near future. PowerSnap also has no support for taking snapshots of LUNs with ZFS on them so basically…

Systems Architects have years of experience in the various parts of the systems they work with. …They can cut your OP-EX by 90% and consolidate all your servers … Their systems do not know the meaning of the word Downtime… Optimization is the name of the game. Your site will be in the customer’s…