[OpenIndiana-discuss] taking snapshots was Re: OpenIndiana/ZFS mail server HA config

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 07:01 AM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: We used to do this every 15 minutes on a pair of thumpers at the Uni I worked at. Has anybody done this with a shorter period? You may get more traction with the question on a ZFS mailing list. I thought I was the only one wh

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Qemu-kvm as a service?

2011-12-06 Thread Matt Connolly
Hey all, I'm having some good luck now running several virtual machines using KVM. I've had a look around, and haven't found any nice ways to automate running the virtual machines as services, for example. libvirt doesn't seem to support qemu-kvm at present. Does anyone have any happy stories

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Geoff Flarity wrote: > Hi Harry, > > I'd stick with VirtualBox if you're not looking to do anything > serious. For example, say you just want to run Windows on your OI > desktop. Especially if you're using the VirtualBox GUI. One issue that > VirtualBox has is that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Error building check_swap en OpenIndiana

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Bareiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at las 22:10:34 -0300, Gordon Ross wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> This is my first message to the list/group. I'm using GNU/Linux since >> 2000 and to expand my knowledge I decided to try OpenIndiana. I hope >> that with the help of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] tutorial for creating pkg's for bundling software

2011-12-06 Thread peter lees
On 07/12/2011, at 5:09 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 12/06/11 04:33, Peter Lees wrote: >> hi folks >> >> in the olden days i used to use pkgmk and so on to create SVR4 packages of >> my software bundles (eg local buids of perl, apache, etc) >> >> can anyone suggest a good tutorial for doi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Lou Picciano and List, On Dezember, 06 2011, 21:38 wrote in [1]: > Gary, Alexander, Geoff, Others... > Have incorporated changes you guys have posted here into wiki pages > on mobos, servers and (enet) components - including a little bit of > cross-linking. Tks for your inputs. I like to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Lou Picciano
Gary, Alexander, Geoff, Others... Have incorporated changes you guys have posted here into wiki pages on mobos, servers and (enet) components - including a little bit of cross-linking. Tks for your inputs. If you want to flesh out notes/versions/drivers, etc. - I'd be happy to incorporate. Su

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 06:58:07PM +0100, Alexander Lesle wrote: > Hello Gary Mills and List, > > On Dezember, 06 2011, 16:10 wrote in [1]: > > > I'm running oi_151a on a Supermicro X9SCM-F-O motherboard with four > > 4-gig ECC DIMMs and an Intel E3-1220 CPU. Only one of the ethernet > > interf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Lou Picciano
Alexander - I've added those. Tks for your report. L Anyone else? We're on a roll now! Lou - Original Message - From: "Alexander Lesle" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 1:14:27 PM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Webmin problems on openindiana

2011-12-06 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I installed the included webmin package from the openindiana.org repository, but whatever I do it won't start. I probably just didn't get it right... But: 1. Is webmin useful on openindiana using zfs, at all? 2. How is one supposed to install it and start/enable it and use it?? ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:54:19PM +, Lou Picciano wrote: > > Gary - Have taken the liberty of updating wiki here: > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Servers , with an internal link to > the 'servers' ACL page. Thanks. I'll update it when I test the IPMI device. -- -Gary Mills--r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 11

2011-12-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:23:56PM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Which of the ethernet interfaces is supported, the 82579LM or the 82574L? > > Since I absolutely need at least two interfaces, preferably 4, the > answer is important. It's the 82574L that's supported now. It shows up in `scan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-12-06 Thread Andy Lubel
Yeah dell support was great, they twiddled their thumbs then put me on the phone with a sales guy and at that point I just decided to order a h700i. All this fear and uncertainty regarding hard drive shortages puts my delivery date at risk (I would have rather switched to Sata). If it doesn't wo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Lou Picciano and List, thx for updating http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Motherboards Can you add this Boards to the HCL too? X8Si6-F ATX, onboard LSI 2008 8-Port 6Gbps SAS Controller X8SIA-F ATX X8SIL-F mATX All three comes with Intel 82574L dual nic and IPMI. Thx. On Dezember, 06 2011,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] tutorial for creating pkg's for bundling software

2011-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/06/11 04:33, Peter Lees wrote: hi folks in the olden days i used to use pkgmk and so on to create SVR4 packages of my software bundles (eg local buids of perl, apache, etc) can anyone suggest a good tutorial for doing the same thing with this newfangled 'pkg' stuff ? I don't know ab

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Flarity
There's a components subpage as well I see. Confirmed: Server: SUPERMICRO SYS-6026T-6RF+ Mobo: X8DTU-6F+ On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Lou Picciano wrote: > Gary - Have taken the liberty of updating wiki here: > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Servers , with an internal link to the > 'ser

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Gary Mills and List, On Dezember, 06 2011, 16:10 wrote in [1]: > I'm running oi_151a on a Supermicro X9SCM-F-O motherboard with four > 4-gig ECC DIMMs and an Intel E3-1220 CPU. Only one of the ethernet > interfaces is supported, but that's all I need. I haven't tested the > IPMI device y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 11

2011-12-06 Thread James Carlson
Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Which of the ethernet interfaces is supported, the 82579LM or the 82574L? > > Since I absolutely need at least two interfaces, preferably 4, the > answer is important. Looks like both work, assuming you have the very latest code. The latter (82574L) has been supported

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro

2011-12-06 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Hans J. Albertsson and List, I wrote you what I know which Boards are running under oi_151a. At the moment you have now 4 confirmed Boards: X8Si6-F X8SIA-F X8SIL-F X9SCM-F-O but only one Ethernet interface is supported On Dezember, 06 2011, 17:18 wrote in [1]: > I don't really understa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Lou Picciano
Gary - Have taken the liberty of updating wiki here: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Servers , with an internal link to the 'servers' ACL page. Tks for your mileage report. (I'd love to start a similar page for storage subsystem reports - hardware used, gotchas, bonnie++ reports, etc.) Lou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 11

2011-12-06 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Which of the ethernet interfaces is supported, the 82579LM or the 82574L? Since I absolutely need at least two interfaces, preferably 4, the answer is important. On 2011-12-06 17:16, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:10:34 -0600 From: Gar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro

2011-12-06 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I don't really understand what you say: Will OI b151a work with X8STi-LN4 or not?? or is it unknown? Will OI b151a work with X9SCM-F or not??m or is it unknown? On 2011-12-06 13:33, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Message: 8 Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 13:01:43 +0100 From: Alexan

[OpenIndiana-discuss] XtreemFS Fuse Client on OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana

2011-12-06 Thread Paolo Marcheschi
Hi I forward to the lists this announcement, I think may be of some interest. Paolo Messaggio originale Oggetto:XtreemFS Fuse Client on OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana Data: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:32:30 +0100 Mittente: Michael Berlin A: xtree...@googlegroups.com CC

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Flarity
No open sign up? Wiki fail. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Geoff Flarity wrote: > Great opportunity to update the Wiki: > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Community+HCL > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Gary Mills wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Flarity
Great opportunity to update the Wiki: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Community+HCL On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Gary Mills wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: >> Will OI b151a work OK with the following boards: >> >>    **X9SCM-F: >> >> Key Features >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana/ZFS mail server HA, config

2011-12-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 08:34:44AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Actually, automatic failover will not be necessary, it is after all > only a mail server in an environment with fairly resilient users. > They'd be quite happy to have to call a sysadm up for manual failover. How you design this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Will OI b151a work OK with the following boards: > >**X9SCM-F: > > Key Features > 1. Single socket H2 (LGA 1155) supports > Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 family, Intel® > 2nd Generation Core i3 & Intel® > Pentium® family

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-06 Thread Robin Axelsson
So it seems that on the Intel side, only systems with Xeon CPUs support ECC RAM, so none of Intel's current line of i3/i5/i7 CPUs support ECC. When it comes to VT-d extensions (or IOMMU on the AMD side) for virtualization, the following page might be a good help: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/VT

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana/ZFS mail server HA config

2011-12-06 Thread James Carlson
Lucas Van Tol wrote: > I had been trying to work out some kind of HA using iscsi LUNS + ZFS mirror > on top of that; but I never got around to figuring out an automated failover > process. > You would want the master to not share out it's LUN; and the other node to > check if there is a system a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] tutorial for creating pkg's for bundling software

2011-12-06 Thread Peter Lees
hi folks in the olden days i used to use pkgmk and so on to create SVR4 packages of my software bundles (eg local buids of perl, apache, etc) can anyone suggest a good tutorial for doing the same thing with this newfangled 'pkg' stuff ? i'd like to make whatever the equivalent of package str

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Hans J. Albertsson and List, On Dezember, 06 2011, 11:37 wrote in [1]: > Will OI b151a work OK with the following boards: > *?* This Boards will work and its confirmed: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/#1156 X8Si6-F X8SIA-F X8SIL-F -- Best Regards Alexander D

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Will OI b151a work OK with the following boards: **X9SCM-F: ** Key Features 1. Single socket H2 (LGA 1155) supports Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 family, Intel® 2nd Generation Core i3 & Intel® Pentium® family processors 2. Intel® C204 PCH Chipset 3. Up to 32GB DDR3 ECC 1333/1066MHz