Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-11 Thread Heinrich van Riel
ked, Oracles storage arrays were running Solaris and Comstar. > > Mike > > On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 20:36 -0400, Heinrich van Riel wrote: > > > spoke to soon died again. > > Give up. Just posting the result in case someone else run into issues > with > > fc target and fi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-10 Thread Heinrich van Riel
it is not able to the same as OI. clearly a problem with comstar's ability to deal with fc. after a hard reset it will work for again a short bit Last post Cheers On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Heinrich van Riel < heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > switch to the qlogic adpater

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-10 Thread Heinrich van Riel
> > > > > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Heinrich van Riel < > heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I took a look at every server that I knew I could power down or that is >> slated for removal in the future and I found a qlogic adapter not in use.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool version compatibility

2013-06-10 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Thanks, I missed that. I am good now. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Jan Owoc wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Heinrich van Riel > > wrote: > >> Since there is a split pool version is versi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-10 Thread Heinrich van Riel
fc target is no longer an option, but I will post in the ora solaris forum. Either this has been an issue for some time or it is a hardware combination or perhaps I am doing something seriously wrong. On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Heinrich van Riel < heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool version compatibility

2013-06-10 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Thank you for clearing it up I created version 28 while management decide is they will license oracle solaris so that I can go back to OI. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/ope

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool version compatibility

2013-06-10 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Since there is a split pool version is version 28 the highest that would be compatible between the releases or can I import a version 29 created in Oracle into Illumos? Thanks, ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-08 Thread Heinrich van Riel
back to windows storage spaces. Cant backup the current lab on the EMC array to this node in any event since there is no ip connectivity and fc is a dream. Guess I am the only one trying to use it as an fc target and these problems are not noticed. On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Heinrich van

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-08 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Heinrich van Riel < heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > New card, different PCI-E slot (removed the other one) different FC switch > (same model with same code) older hba firmware (2.72a2) = same result. > > On the setting changes when it boots it co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
with no issues, but was using an older emulex HBA, LP1 PCIX Looking at the notable changes in the release notes past a5 I do see anything that changed that I would think would cause the behavior. Would this just be a waste of time? On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Heinrich van Riel < heinr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
place the LPe11002 with a brand new unopened one and then give up on FC on OI. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Heinrich van Riel < heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did find this in my inbox from 2009, I have been using FC with ZFS for > quite sometime and only recently retire

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
does not appear to be a good fit since sun mostly used qlogic. guess it is back to iscsi only for now. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Heinrich van Riel < heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I changed the settings. I do see it writing all the time now, but the link > still dies a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
low > > > On 2013-06-07 20:42, Heinrich van Riel wrote: > >> One sec apart cloning 150GB vm from a datastore on EMC to OI. >> >> alloc free read write read write >> - - - - - - >> 309G 54.2T 81 48 452K 1.34M >> 309G 54.2T 0 8.17K 0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Thank you for all the information. Ordered the SAS SSD. I somewhat got tired of iscsi and the networking stuff around it and went to good ol FC. Some hypervisors will still use iSCSI. Speed is ok One sec apart cloning 150GB vm from a datastore on EMC to OI. alloc free read write read write -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-06 Thread Heinrich van Riel
deal with 1Gbps for the storage. The request is to run ~90 VMs on 8 servers connected. Thank you all for all the responses. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Saso Kiselkov wrote: > On 05/06/2013 23:52, Heinrich van Riel wrote: > > Any pointers around iSCSI performance focused on r

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-05 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Any pointers around iSCSI performance focused on read speed? Did not find much. I have 2 x rz2 of 10x 3TB NL-SAS each in the pool. The OI server has 4 interfaces configured to the switch in LACP, mtu=9000. The switch (jumbo enabled) shows all interfaces are active in the port channel. How can I ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

2013-03-01 Thread Heinrich van Riel
I tried both 4.2.6 & 4.2.8, I did not create the file in /etc. So that would explain that problem. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-03-01 07:07, Jerry Kemp wrote: > >> You tried the latest version - 4.2.6, right? >>> I'm sure you meant the latest version - 4.2.8 .

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

2013-02-28 Thread Heinrich van Riel
). I am going to assume it was related to the vbox install failures and move on, do not have the time to dig into it. Thanks, On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Heinrich van Riel < heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It had the same behavior with 151a5 and 151a7. It is not really doing &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

2013-02-28 Thread Heinrich van Riel
till waiting for the sas disks for the rpool, so a reinstall will happen at that point. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Heinrich van Riel wrote: > > I am using the same board with 20 disks. I seem to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers? (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 29, Issue 43)

2013-02-27 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Hi, I am using the same board with 20 disks. I seem to have some stability issues, all are SAS disks except for the 2x rpool disks (SATA) that I have connected on the the backplane in the back of the chassis since according to the supermicro documentation SATA/SAS should not be mixed in the same b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZVOL (et al) /device node access rights

2012-10-15 Thread Heinrich van Riel
I have been looking at changing from file to zvol, not for performance reasons. A few questions on using ZVOL 1. Is it as stable as using a file for disk? 2. Is it possible that snapshots sizes could be smaller vs file? (This is my main reason, snapshot replication.) 3. Can this be used with KVM?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-15 Thread Heinrich van Riel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: > > > From: heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com [mailto:heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com] > > > > My point is most high end storage units has some form of data > > verification process that is active all the time. > > As does ZFS. The blocks are checksumed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Heinrich van Riel
memory > > Kind regards, > > The out-side > > Op 12 okt. 2012 om 18:13 heeft "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" < > udo.grabow...@kit.edu> het volgende geschreven: > > > On 12/10/2012 16:10, Heinrich van Riel wrote: > >> > >> My concern is as foll

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-12 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Hello everyone, I have a question around memory utilization. Recently we had a system that started to lock up daily and we had to swap it out with a lab system running 151a5 and Virtualbox. lab system: 2x AMD 6 core, 32GB Mem. (no KVM support for AMD) The lab system use to run an Exchange 2010 la