Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Limit - 255 iSCSI targets

2013-04-01 Thread Mike La Spina
4-01, at 7:59 AM, "Geoff Nordli" mailto:geo...@gnaa.net>> wrote: On 13-03-31 01:20 AM, Mike La Spina wrote: The maximum is actually 1024 on the iscsi port end: xref: /illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/comstar/port/iscsit/iscsit.h 55/* Max targets per system */ 56#defineISCSIT_M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Limit - 255 iSCSI targets

2013-03-31 Thread Mike La Spina
The maximum is actually 1024 on the iscsi port end: xref: /illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/comstar/port/iscsit/iscsit.h 55/* Max targets per system */ 56#define ISCSIT_MAX_TARGETS 1024 How have you determined it's 255? --Mike -Original Message- From: Richard Elling [mailt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-30 Thread Mike La Spina
Some additional example in this one http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/encapsulating-vt-d-accelerated-zfs-sto rage-within-esxi -Original Message- From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:53 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-30 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Sebastian, Some examples using RBAC in my blog entry http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zf s could help. Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:53 AM To: openindiana-di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR iSCSI fail-over

2012-09-02 Thread Mike La Spina
I suspect you need to include the zfs properties with your zfs send, -p will provide them. Regards, Mike http://blog.laspina.ca -Original Message- From: Florian [mailto:flor...@acw.at] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 6:40 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Should I upgrade the pool?

2012-08-19 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Robert, You do not need to enable the feature flags at this point however you will in the future need to consider the following: You have come to a fork in the road. You can chose one of two directions going forward. 1. Follow the illumos path which is open and has a community. 2. Follow

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS's vdev state transition

2012-07-20 Thread Mike La Spina
It may be prudent to consider a thermal hardware fault with the suspect disk. In this case it is possible that the disk was at a lower temp at the time the pool was defined to which it may have not exhibited a data fault. Can you confirm the fault occurs when the disk is hot verses cold? Regards

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mounting smb IN OI

2012-07-07 Thread Mike La Spina
Checkout http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1449/smbclientadmintaskstm. html -Original Message- From: michelle [mailto:miche...@msknight.com] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 6:33 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mounting smb IN OI On 07/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

2012-07-05 Thread Mike La Spina
That symptom reflects browser election issues. Workstations should not have the browser service running. Domain controllers are the most appropriate location for browser name services unless it's a small workgroup. Running browsers on many workstations creates browser election storms. -Origi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to upgrade from OS_snv_134

2012-07-04 Thread Mike La Spina
It may be processing http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ first, try removing it for now. I have encountered similar issues with elements that are available in multiple repos. -Original Message- From: M Lubratt [mailto:mplubr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 6:32 PM To: openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help debugging and replacing failed (maybe)hard drive

2012-07-03 Thread Mike La Spina
Some things to consider. Generally a RAID controller that is in virtual RAID0 presentation mode can hide a problem drive from ZFS. e.g. Just places the virtual drive offline. You need to make sure it's really dead. Without access to the PERC Raid management interface/app you may be out of luck w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Office apps unable to write to ZFS overCIFS

2012-07-01 Thread Mike La Spina
There are some key elements missing from the presented Oracle document clip. e.g. *The primary rules of ACL access on a ZFS file follow: *ZFS processes ACL entries in the order they are listed in the ACL, from the top down. *Only ACL entries that have a "who" that matches the requester

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "shareiscsi" and COMSTAR

2012-06-27 Thread Mike La Spina
2012-06-27 4:51, Mike La Spina wrote: >> Hi Jim, >> >>> 1) Is COMSTAR still not-integrated with shareiscsi ZFS attributes? >>> Or can the pool use the attribute, and the correct (new COMSTAR) >>> iSCSI target daemon will fire up? >> >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "shareiscsi" and COMSTAR

2012-06-26 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Jim, >1) Is COMSTAR still not-integrated with shareiscsi ZFS attributes? >Or can the pool use the attribute, and the correct (new COMSTAR) >iSCSI target daemon will fire up? COMSTAR is not integrated with ZFS and it will ignore the ZFS props. What is the release of the old host OS? I s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

2012-06-25 Thread Mike La Spina
The error reported task_file_status = 0x4041 on port 3 is a result of an ATA response where the PxIS.TFES bit was set. The ahci driver must do a port reset at that point. The SATA disk failed to perform an operation and reported it. I suspect this is not a data error and may be more on the lines of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

2012-06-25 Thread Mike La Spina
I have observed the same SATA hard disk error wait behavior over many operating systems. It's a SATA hardware issue. I have even observed it on expensive high end storage servers. (HP, IBM, etc.) The SATA disk or subsystem is trying to correct/recover errors, it should not and just return the fault

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recognizing disks

2012-06-24 Thread Mike La Spina
for your help. Regards, Adam On 24 Jun 2012, at 17:24, Mike La Spina wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Possibly the LSI controller was not matched to a driver. Check the > controller model and verify it is on the HCL. > > Run: > > pfexec prtconf | grep driver > > to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recognizing disks

2012-06-24 Thread Mike La Spina
uestions I can answer to help narrow it down). Also, am I correct in saying the loading of the Initiator/Target mode firmware image should be done in the BIOS before the O/S has loaded? Thanks for your help. Regards, Adam On 24 Jun 2012, at 17:24, Mike La Spina wrote: > Hi Adam, > &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recognizing disks

2012-06-24 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Adam, Possibly the LSI controller was not matched to a driver. Check the controller model and verify it is on the HCL. Run: pfexec prtconf | grep driver to observer any devices that are not bound to a driver. http://illumos.org/hcl/ Typically I have found that the some RAID mode firmwar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] intermittent network? (rge device)

2012-06-19 Thread Mike La Spina
I have one system running an rge card. No issues at all, it's running 2 years now with 134 through 151a4. It a storage server and it's running light to medium load. What else do you have configured? NWAM? Layer 2 dladm elements? dmesg output? Does snoop reveal anything when it goes unresponsi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very simple network speed testing tools inOpenIndiana?

2012-06-18 Thread Mike La Spina
You may want to look at http://www.speedtest.net/mini.php -Original Message- From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 5:44 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very simple network speed testing tools inO

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS fromwindows regularlyhangs.

2012-06-13 Thread Mike La Spina
> Does the suspend event only occur on SMB clients or does it impact the other storage clients when triggered by the Windows clients? It does not seem to effect the vmware hosted machines via nfs. Next time it hangs I will try a nfs transfer to it. - If this is correct its a further indication of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularlyhangs.

2012-06-12 Thread Mike La Spina
Does the suspend event only occur on SMB clients or does it impact the other storage clients when triggered by the Windows clients? Any domain controller event errors? dmsg output? fmdump -eV output? uname -a output? Have you attempted a packet capture of the event? snoop -o smb-client.cap --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-04 Thread Mike La Spina
Everything you asked seems to be fully covered by our community. Just wanted to add the following; Not all SSDs are made for slog usage. Be aware that low end (and even some high endones) SSDs may not successfully commit a write operation to the flash write cell address boundary due to a power lo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS restore from snapshot

2012-06-03 Thread Mike La Spina
I would suggest you run a zpool scrub. -Original Message- From: Jay Heyl [mailto:j...@frelled.us] Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 11:15 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS restore from snapshot I have a file that shows as corrupted in the live file sys

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR qlt dropping link and resetting

2012-05-21 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Adrian, The SanBoxes? - Nexsan nothing in their logs OK Dmesg? : > May 17 17:33:47 hagrid fct: [ID 132490 kern.notice] NOTICE: qlt1,0 > LINK UP, portid 20300, topology Fabric Pt-to-Pt,speed 8G May 17 > 17:33:48 hagrid fct: [ID 132490 kern.notice] NOTICE: qlt0,0 LINK UP, > portid 10400

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR qlt dropping link and resetting

2012-05-19 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Adrian, What logs have you checked. The SanBoxes? Dmesg? Stmf service? Are you running snapshots? Dedup? Compression? IRQ sharing? echo ::interrupts | mdb -k -Original Message- From: Adrian Carpenter [mailto:ta...@wbic.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 3:26 AM To: openindiana-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem route traceroute pkg.openindiana.orgon 109.71.206.26

2012-05-19 Thread Mike La Spina
Arhipkin, Did you try traceroute -I pkg.openindiana.org Many ISP's do not respond to UDP pings. In this case it looks like the pkg host was actually down. Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: Arhipkin Ilya [mailto:i...@arhipkin.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 5:26 AM To: Discus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggregate (dladm)

2012-05-15 Thread Mike La Spina
Sorry its Mark not Tim, Hit reply on the next list message. -Original Message- From: Mike La Spina Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:18 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggregate (dladm) Hi Tim, I always create users for auto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggregate (dladm)

2012-05-15 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Tim, I always create users for automated functions and never use root unless its forced. As well I usually create a group which is used to assign any required rights for the role or function. The cron job should be assigned to the running user which you can always edit as a primary admin. e.g.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot-archive timing out after 3ware driverinstall

2012-05-10 Thread Mike La Spina
The only thing I can think of is ... did you refresh the active service manifest? e.g. svcadm refresh boot-archive:default -Original Message- From: Ian Levesque [mailto:i...@crystal.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 1:07 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: [OpenIndia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] unable to start nfs

2012-05-07 Thread Mike La Spina
Tim, If you use that method your NFS share properties will only live in the hosts dfstab file. By setting zfs properties you achieve the same thing except the share follows the zfs filesystem. (nas/vol0 in this example) e.g. zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid,root=vmware-host-ip-etc sp1/nas/vol0 zfs s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana ldap client

2012-05-05 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Tim, Try the following change to the nsswitch.conf file # consult /etc "files" only if ldap is down. hosts: files dns mdns ldap This will set the resolution order to; 1 local hosts file, 2 dns, 3 multicast dns, 4 ldap lookup Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: Tim Dunphy [

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs honoring cache flush?

2012-04-25 Thread Mike La Spina
This was corrected if you're an Illumos build after Jan 2012 Bug ID 1909 http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2012/01/search/MTA5MA/sort/time_rev/page/1/?search_for=1909 -Original Message- From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:51

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI as a combined storage server andvirtual server enviroment

2012-04-20 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi, You can do all of that and much more. Here is one example. http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zf s Regards, Mike http://blog.laspina.ca/ -Original Message- From: Mats Taraldsvik [mailto:mats.taralds...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:3