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To see the resultant stored file size of the dynamic disk above with EON actually installed see: Dynamically Expanding Disk File Size EONДЄs one can see, even a 8GB drive (the size of a common USB flash drive) is sufficient for EONвЂ™s operating system footprint. This is basically the actual file size of the virtual disk for fixed-size disks and the upper size limit allowed for a dynamically expanding disk (unless you expand the disk size later). The last step in creating the new virtual disk is to size the virtual disk. VirtualBox - New Virtual Machine Wizard - New Virtual Hard Disk - Set Size Performance wise, the general rule of thumb is that dynamic disks decrease performance by at least 6% depending upon the host diskвЂ™s fragmentation. Essentially, the virtual hard disk fileвЂ™s footprint will grow with a dynamically expanding disk as data is stored in the virtual machine. With a dynamically expanding disk, you use only 20GB (or a bit more) on the host disk yet the host virtual machine thinks you are using a 120GB drive. With a fixed-size storage disk you create/ reserve 120GB of space on the host drive to simulate the 120GB disk storing 20GB of data. For example, if you have 20GB filled on a 120GB partition in Windows, you have a 120GB disk dedicated to holding only 20GB of data. Dynamically expanding storage only uses a disk footprint on the host hard disk (usually a physical drive) that is required to hold the virtual machine data. Here one can pick dynamically expanding storage or fixed size storage. Selecting вЂњCreate new hard diskвЂќ and then clicking вЂњNextвЂќ will start the create new virtual disk wizard (click next through the splash screen.) VirtualBox - New Virtual Machine Wizard - New Virtual Hard Disk - Fixed or Dynamic Generally one wants to create a new hard disk for their boot disk. VirtualBox - New Virtual Machine Wizard - New Virtual Hard Disk The next step involves creating the storage disk (main boot disk). Admittedly, these screen shots were taken just to illustrate the process and not make a virtual machine that I use on a regular basis. While you can use less, I would suggest using at least 2GB if you have the capacity available. VirtualBox - New Virtual Machine Wizard - Memory Allocation The next step is to allocate memory to the virtual machine. As noted above the test machine has 12GB of DDR3 primarily to run these test machines when needed so allocating 4GB or more of RAM is not an uncommon thing to do. Since a Raid-Z storage server is a very memory hungry application, I use 64-bit versions. VirtualBox - New Virtual Machine Wizard - Name and Select TypeД®ON ZFS Storage is based upon OpenSolaris. The next step is to give the VM a name (I use operating system and sometimes a note regarding what I am using it to test) and select the operating system type. Once you hit new, the Virtual Machine Wizard will run. The easiest way to set up a test machine is to hit new.

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Please see this quick guide on setting up VirtualBox on Windows 7 64 bit if you have not done so already. This part of the guide again is premised upon VirtualBox being installed first. Installing EON ZFS Storage in VirtualBox Step 1: Setting up the Virtual Machine

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This system has plenty of memory and power to run an OpenSolaris/ FreeBSD ZFS storage system in VirtualBox plus Windows 7 64 bit.

Host OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

Power Supply: Corsair CMPSU-1000HX 1000w Power Supply.

NIC (additional): Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad.

Controller: Intel ICH10R with Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 9.

SSD: OCZ Agility 2 120GB SandForce based SSD.Drives (OS): 2x OCZ Vertex 120GB in RAID 0.Memory: 12GB of Corsair Dominator GT 1600 C7 DDR3.I noticed that I have done a poor job listing the test system in articles from the first quarter of 2010 and earlier. Also, I am using my previous article regarding installing VirtualBox on Windows 7 ењ†4 as a basis for this article.

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For the uninitiated user (to ZFS), I would strongly urge them to experiment with both FreeBSD and OpenSolaris based ZFS implementations before committing to build a full storage solution based on either.

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In this article, I am going to show how one can install EON ZFS Storage, an OpenSolaris based operating system in VirtualBox to allow one to test ZFS storage solutions out before implementation.

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While MicrosoftвЂ™s Virtual PC works well to virtualize Windows XP instances on the desktop, it lacks the feature set of a more robust virtualization tool like OracleвЂ™s VirtualBox. As was mentioned in my previous article, I am a big fan of using VirtualBox virtualization on my Windows 7 ењ†4 desktop to sandbox different storage configurations, especially with ZFS capable operating systems like FreeNAS and OpenSolaris.