[zfs-discuss] Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-15 Thread Wolfraider
Just went to Oracle's website and just noticed that you can download Solaris 11 Express. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS pool issues with COMSTAR

2010-10-07 Thread Wolfraider
We have a weird issue with our ZFS pool and COMSTAR. The pool shows online with no errors, everything looks good but when we try to access zvols shared out with COMSTAR, windows reports that the devices have bad blocks. Everything has been working great until last night and no changes have been

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-16 Thread Wolfraider
We have the following setup configured. The drives are running on a couple PAC PS-5404s. Since these units do not support JBOD, we have configured each individual drive as a RAID0 and shared out all 48 RAID0’s per box. This is connected to the solaris box through a dual port 4G Emulex fibrechan

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-16 Thread Wolfraider
We downloaded zilstat from http://www.richardelling.com/Home/scripts-and-programs-1 but we never could get the script to run. We are not really sure how to debug. :( ./zilstat.ksh dtrace: invalid probe specifier #pragma D option quiet inline int OPT_time = 0; inline int OPT_txg = 0; inline

Re: [zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Wolfraider
Cool, we can get the Intel X25-E's for around $300 a piece from HP with the sled. I don't see the X25-M available so we will look at 4 of the X25-E's. Thanks :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@openso

[zfs-discuss] dedicated ZIL/L2ARC

2010-09-14 Thread Wolfraider
We are looking into the possibility of adding a dedicated ZIL and/or L2ARC devices to our pool. We are looking into getting 4 – 32GB Intel X25-E SSD drives. Would this be a good solution to slow write speeds? We are currently sharing out different slices of the pool to windows servers using com

[zfs-discuss] corrupt pool?

2010-07-19 Thread Wolfraider
Our server locked up hard yesterday and we had to hard power it off and back on. The server locked up again on reading ZFS config (I left it trying to read the zfs config for 24 hours). I went through and removed the drives for the data pool we created and powered on the server and it booted suc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrate ZFS volume to new pool

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfraider
3 shelves with 2 controllers each. 48 drive per shelf. These are Fibrechannel attached. We would like all 144 drives added to the same large pool. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrate ZFS volume to new pool

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfraider
> Mirrors are made with vdevs (LUs or disks), not > pools. However, the > vdev attached to a mirror must be the same size (or > nearly so) as the > original. If the original vdevs are 4TB, then a > migration to a pool made > with 1TB vdevs cannot be done by replacing vdevs > (mirror method). > --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrate ZFS volume to new pool

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfraider
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:37 AM, Wolfraider wrote: > > The original drive pool was configured with 144 1TB > drives and a hardware raid 0 strip across every 4 > drives to create 4TB luns. > > For the archives, this is not a good idea... Exactly, This is the reason I wan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrate ZFS volume to new pool

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfraider
We are running the latest dev release. I was hoping to just mirror the zfs voumes and not the whole pool. The original pool size is around 100TB in size. The spare disks I have come up with will total around 40TB. We only have 11TB of space in use on the original zfs pool. -- This message poste

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrate ZFS volume to new pool

2010-04-28 Thread Wolfraider
The original drive pool was configured with 144 1TB drives and a hardware raid 0 strip across every 4 drives to create 4TB luns. These luns where then combined into 6 raidz2 luns and added to the zfs pool. I would like to delete the original hardware raid 0 stripes and add the 144 drives directl

[zfs-discuss] Migrate ZFS volume to new pool

2010-04-27 Thread Wolfraider
We would like to delete and recreate our existing zfs pool without losing any data. The way we though we could do this was attach a few HDDs and create a new temporary pool, migrate our existing zfs volume to the new pool, delete and recreate the old pool and migrate the zfs volumes back. The bi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
We are sharing the LUNS out with Comstar from 1 big pool. In essence, we created our own low cost SAN. We currently have our windows clients connected with Fibrechannel to the COMSTAR target. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Wolfraider wrote: > > This assumes that you have the storage to replicate > or at least restore all data to a DR site. While this > is another way to do it, it is not really cost > effective in our situation. > > If the primary and DR site ar

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
This assumes that you have the storage to replicate or at least restore all data to a DR site. While this is another way to do it, it is not really cost effective in our situation. What I am thinking is basically having 2 servers. One has the zpool attached and sharing out our data. The other i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
It seems like the zpool export will ques the drives and mark the pool as exported. This would be good if we wanted to move the pool at that time but we are thinking of a disaster recovery scenario. It would be nice to export just the config to where if our controller dies, we can use the zpool i

[zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-24 Thread Wolfraider
Sorry if this has been dicussed before. I tried searching but I couldn't find any info about it. We would like to export our ZFS configurations in case we need to import the pool onto another box. We do not want to backup the actual data in the zfs pool, that is already handled through another p