Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Gregory Durham
t;> >> Thanks for the help! >> >> -Greg >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:16 AM, phil.har...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> > I would generally agree that dd is not a great benchmarking tool, >> > but you >> > could

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Gregory Durham
so note that an initial run that creates files may be > quicker because it just allocates blocks, whereas subsequent rewrites > require copy-on-write. > > - Reply message - > From: "Peter Tribble" > To: "Gregory Durham" > Cc: > Subject: [zfs

[zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-09 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello, We just purchased two of the sc847e26-rjbod1 units to be used in a storage environment running Solaris 11 express. We are using Hitachi HUA723020ALA640 6 gb/s drives with an LSI SAS 9200-8e hba. We are not using failover/redundancy. Meaning that one port of the hba goes to the primary front

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-10 Thread Gregory Durham
Hey Ed, Thanks for the comment, I have been thinking along the lines of the same thing, I am going to continue to try to use bacula but we will see. Out of curiosity, what version of netbackup are you using? I would love to feel pretty well covered haha. Thanks a lot! Greg On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 a

[zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-09 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello all, I need to backup some zpools to tape. I currently have two servers, for the purpose of this conversation we will call them server1 and server2 respectively. Server1, has several zpools which are replicated to a single zpool on server2 through a zfs send/recv script. This part works perfe

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-08 Thread Gregory Durham
top of other pools can cause the > system to deadlock or panic. > > This kind of configuration is just not supported or recommended > at this time. > > Thanks, > > Cindy > > > > > On 03/05/10 17:38, Gregory Durham wrote: >> >> Great...will using lofiad

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-05 Thread Gregory Durham
ase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6929751 > > Currently, building a pool from files is not fully supported. > > Thanks, > > Cindy > > On 03/05/10 16:15, Gregory Durham wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I am using Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_129 >> I have a quick questi

[zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-05 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello all, I am using Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_129 I have a quick question. I have created a zpool on a sparse file, for instance: zpool create stage c10d0s0 mount it to /media/stage mkfile -n 500GB /media/stage/disks/disk.img zpool create zfsStage /media/stage/disks/disk.img I want to be able to t

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-27 Thread Gregory Durham
2010 at 12:01:36PM -0800, Gregory Durham wrote: > > Hello All, > > I read through the attached threads and found a solution by a poster and > > decided to try it. > > That may have been mine - good to know it helped, or at least started to. > > > The solution w

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-27 Thread Gregory Durham
zfs send to two destination simultaneously? Or am I stuck. Any pointers would be great! I am using OpenSolaris snv_129 and the disks are sata wd 1tb 7200rpm disks. Thanks All! Greg On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Gregory Durham wrote: > Well I guess I am glad I am not the only one. Thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-25 Thread Gregory Durham
Well I guess I am glad I am not the only one. Thanks for the heads up! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Jan 25, 2010, at 18:28, Gregory Durham wrote: > > One option I have seen is zfs send zfs_s...@1 > /some_dir/some_file_name. >> Then I can back thi

[zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-25 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello all, I have quite a bit of data transferring between two machines via snapshot send and receive, this has been working flawlessly. I am now wanting to back the data from the failover to tape.I was planning on using bacula as I have a bit of experience with it. I am now trying to figure out th

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-19 Thread Gregory Durham
Thank you so much Fajar, You have been incredibly helpful! I will do as you said I am just glad I have not been going down the wrong path! Thanks, Greg On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Gregory Durham > wrote: > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-14 Thread Gregory Durham
snapshotting on the ESXi server? Thanks for all the helpful information! Greg On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Gregory Durham wrote: > Haha, Yeah that's tomorrow, I have a test vm I will be testing on. I shall > report back! Thank you all! > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Faj

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Gregory Durham
Haha, Yeah that's tomorrow, I have a test vm I will be testing on. I shall report back! Thank you all! On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Gregory Durham > wrote: > > Arnaud, > > The virtual machines coming up as

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Gregory Durham
Arnaud, The virtual machines coming up as if they were on is the least of my worries, my biggest worry is keeping the filesystems of the vms alive i.e. not corrupt. I have all of my virtual machines set up with raw LUNs in physical compatibility mode. This has increased performance but sadly at the

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Gregory Durham
Tim, iSCSI was a design descision at the time. Performance was key and I wanted to utilize being able to hand a LUN on the SAN to esxi, and use it as a raw disk in physical compatibility mode...however what this has done is that I can no longer take snapshots on the esxi server and must rely on zfs