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 圆4 as a basis for this article. 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.

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.

While Microsoft’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 Oracle’s VirtualBox. As was mentioned in my previous article, I am a big fan of using VirtualBox virtualization on my Windows 7 圆4 desktop to sandbox different storage configurations, especially with ZFS capable operating systems like FreeNAS and OpenSolaris.

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