Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-02-01 Thread Anh Quach
;s 3 backplanes. In the testing phase, we evaluated Solaris 11 and Nexenta - ultimately we went with Nexenta due to the set of tools pre-written, although performance was slightly better on Solaris. -Anh On Jul 3, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Anh Quach wrote: > Thanks Richard and Edmund for the input

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2012-07-03 Thread Anh Quach
Thanks Richard and Edmund for the input. Looking at the DL380 now... -Anh On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Edmund White wrote: > >> This depends upon what you want to do. I've used G6 and G7 ProLiants >> extensively in ZFS deployments (Nexenta,

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2012-07-02 Thread Anh Quach
tty limited in expansion space. > > -- > Edmund White > > > > > On 7/2/12 4:29 PM, "Anh Quach" wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Has anyone out there been able to qualify the Proliant DL360 G7 for your >> Solaris/OI/Nexenta environments?

[zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2012-07-02 Thread Anh Quach
Hello, Has anyone out there been able to qualify the Proliant DL360 G7 for your Solaris/OI/Nexenta environments? Any pros/cons/gotchas (vs. previous generation HP servers) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! -Anh ___ zfs-discuss maili

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 11/ZFS historical reporting

2012-04-16 Thread Anh Quach
Are there any tools that ship w/ Solaris 11 for historical reporting on things like network activity, zpool iops/bandwidth, etc., or is it pretty much roll-your-own scripts and whatnot? Thanks in advance… -Anh ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing root pool disk

2012-04-12 Thread Anh Quach
This might help, too: http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2011/03/how-set-zfs-root-pool-mirror-oracle-solaris-11-express On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Actually, since I answer the root pool partitioning questions > at least 52 times per year, I provided the steps for clea

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate Constellation vs. Hitachi Ultrastar

2012-04-09 Thread Anh Quach
Are these issues something to watch out for on Solaris 11 as well? Thx in advance… -Anh On Apr 9, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Marion Hakanson wrote: > richard.ell...@richardelling.com said: >> We are starting to see a number of SAS HDDs that prefer logical-block to >> round-robin. I see this with late

[zfs-discuss] Seagate Constellation vs. Hitachi Ultrastar

2012-04-06 Thread Anh Quach
Happy Friday, List! I'm spec'ing out a Thumper-esque solution and having trouble finding my favorite Hitachi Ultrastar 2TB drives at a reasonable post-flood price. The Seagate Constellations seem pretty reasonable given the market circumstances but I don't have any experience with them. Anybody

[zfs-discuss] OpenIndiana production-ready?

2012-04-05 Thread Anh Quach
Hello list, What's the current production-readiness of OI 151a? I'm evaluating Solaris 11 at the moment on HP server hardware + SAS JBODs. Also considering picking up a Thumper/Thor on the used market. For a ZFS storage server, is it a better idea to just stick w/ Oracle Solaris, or is OI also