Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Mark
On 26/05/2011 9:13 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out how to hotswap dead drives on a potential fileserver I am building. I'm using an LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i& 9211-4i to connect 12 SATA drives on a Supermicro backplane that supports SES-2. I am finding conflicting

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

2011-05-27 Thread Mark
On 26/05/2011 9:54 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote: This gives me some pause as I'm in the process of replacing Nexenta boxes that also had flakey reliability. Is anyone using 148 in an enterprise situation with Supermicro? I have three with 3Gb SAS, of around 40Tb. Two are on oi148, and the last wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating zones between OpenIndiana machines

2011-05-27 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
From: Dave Koelmeyer Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 06:03:41 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Reply-To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating zones between OpenIndiana machines Hi, I'm having a hell of a time trying to simply migrate a zone from one OI machine to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] powernow driver

2011-05-27 Thread Albert Lee
2011/5/24 村川 了 : > Hi, Albert. > > I checked my cpu with kstat. But my cpu family is 15. > Therefore I didn't use the built-in powernow function. > This means I can't use PowerNow! function on OI. > > Is it right? Yeah, I think you won't be able to use the built-in support. Casper Dik maintains a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating zones between OpenIndiana machines

2011-05-27 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 28/05/11 01:29 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: From: Dave Koelmeyer Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 06:03:41 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Reply-To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating zones between OpenIndiana machines Hi, I'm having a hell of a time trying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Pete Ashdown
On 05/27/2011 02:10 AM, Mark wrote: > On 26/05/2011 9:13 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote: >> I'm having trouble figuring out how to hotswap dead drives on a potential >> fileserver I am building. I'm using an LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i& >> 9211-4i to connect 12 SATA drives on a Supermicro backplane th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread LaoTsao
The link tell you to get megaraid controller Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On May 27, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Pete Ashdown wrote: > On 05/27/2011 02:10 AM, Mark wrote: >> On 26/05/2011 9:13 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote: >>> I'm having trouble figuring out how to hotswap dead drives

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NTPD and PPM issues?

2011-05-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I have an openindiana virtual machine running under ESXi. The vmware tools are installed and timesync is disabled. I have ntpd configured and working with several servers in the us.pool.ntp.org subdomain. It all seems to work - comparing the time with 2 other virtual machines on the same h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Pete Ashdown
On 05/27/2011 11:02 AM, LaoTsao wrote: Are the 9240-8i/4i appropriate? I can't find any specs that specifically mention ses2. > The link tell you to get megaraid controller > >>> The LSI SAS2 hba controllers don't seem to have ses2 support at present. >>> As far as I could tell, the ses function

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
check this link http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/User/AssetMgr.aspx?asset=55129 On 5/27/2011 2:33 PM, Pete Ashdown wrote: On 05/27/2011 11:02 AM, LaoTsao wrote: Are the 9240-8i/4i appropriate? I can't find any specs that specifically mention ses2. The link tell you to get megaraid cont

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTPD and PPM issues?

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I have an openindiana virtual machine running under ESXi. The vmware tools are installed and timesync is disabled. I have ntpd configured and working with several servers in the us.pool.ntp.org subdomain. It all seems to work - comparing the time with 2 other virtual

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTPD and PPM issues?

2011-05-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Andrew Gabriel wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I have an openindiana virtual machine running under ESXi. The vmware tools are installed and timesync is disabled. I have ntpd configured and working with several servers in the us.pool.ntp.org subdomain. It all seems to work - comparing the ti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
another reference point if you check out these docs for ZFS appliance http://wikis.sun.com/display/FishWorks/Documentation customer service manual, will giv you detail HW break down of ZFS appliance On 5/27/2011 3:03 PM, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: check this link http://www.ls

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
of course for ZFS you donot really use any HW-RAID function of the megaraid controller you will use HDD as individual devices beside SES-2 you will also take advantage any NVRAM in the controller(if any) On 5/27/2011 3:03 PM, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: check this link http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTPD and PPM issues?

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Andrew Gabriel wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I have an openindiana virtual machine running under ESXi. The vmware tools are installed and timesync is disabled. I have ntpd configured and working with several servers in the us.pool.ntp.org subdomain. It all seems

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTPD and PPM issues?

2011-05-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Andrew Gabriel wrote: It may be the only one which _notices_ it's having this issue. Like it may be the only one which notices if a disk returns a corrupted block. You didn't say what the other OS's are. Sorry, I should have provided more information. VM #1: OpenIndiana. Running ntpd versi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

2011-05-27 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello, I have some questions about best strategies when using OI as a ZFS storage. My general idea, is that servers should boot from zfs volumes shared via iscsi. In the same general idea, data shoud reside on a native zfs file system of the storage, so that I can run snapshots from the storage,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
for 9240-8i http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/User/AssetMgr.aspx?asset=55129 On 5/27/2011 2:33 PM, Pete Ashdown wrote: On 05/27/2011 11:02 AM, LaoTsao wrote: Are the 9240-8i/4i appropriate? I can't find any specs that specifically mention ses2. The link tell you to get megaraid controlle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

2011-05-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I have some questions about best strategies when using OI as a ZFS storage. My general idea, is that servers should boot from zfs volumes shared via iscsi. One caveat: rather than a zvol, I would use a thin-provisioned file to back the iSCSI LUN. People (includ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata port multiplier?

2011-05-27 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 05/25/2011 05:21 PM, Matt Connolly wrote: > > Sounds like an almost identical setup to what I have. Although I'm using a > Si3114 card. I have AHCI enabled in the bios, so my drivers are: > > Silicon Image si3114 = pci-ide > Intel SATA Controller = ahci. > > And, if you do find a miniPCIe SSD,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS storage best practices

2011-05-27 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Thanks a lot for your suggestions :) I'll make my tests ;) About the backups, these are arguments for another discussion, later ;) About duplicating, I mean: if I need to have zfs on mirrors/ridez, it's ok if the storage does this. Then, if my Solaris host connects via iscsi, that iscsi resource w

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS Linux client slow reads

2011-05-27 Thread Pete Ashdown
Both NFS tests were conducted on the same hardware, with 4 aggregated 802.3ad gig-e ports on the server and 2 aggregated 802.3ad gig-e ports on the client. The OI server has 24GB RAM, 8 2TB Seagate drives, and a 32GB SSD for ZIL and a 160GB SSD for L2ARC. Test 1: Ubuntu Linux server & client #

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

2011-05-27 Thread Mark
On 28/05/2011 3:25 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote: On 05/27/2011 02:10 AM, Mark wrote: On 26/05/2011 9:13 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out how to hotswap dead drives on a potential fileserver I am building. I'm using an LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i& 9211-4i to connect 12 SA