Hello Nicholas,
Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 12:55:05 AM, you wrote:
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On 2/19/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
5. there's no simple answer to this question as it greatly depends on workload and data.
One thing you should keep in mind - Solaris *has* to boot in a 6
On 2/19/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
5. there's no simple answer to this question as it greatly depends on
workload and data.
One thing you should keep in mind - Solaris *has* to boot in a 64bit
mode if you wan to
use all that memory as a cache for zfs, so old x86 32bi
On 2/20/07, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah. We looked at them for some Windows DR. They do have a nice product.
Just waiting for them to get iscsi and vlan support. Supposely sometime in
the next couple months. Combined with zfs/iscsi it will make a very nice
small data
Hi Nicholas,
Actually Virtual Iron, they have a nice system at the moment with live
migration of windows guest.
Ah. We looked at them for some Windows DR. They do have a nice product.
3. Which leads to: coming from Debian, how easy is system updates? I
remember with OpenBSD system updates u
Hello Nicholas,
Monday, February 19, 2007, 11:31:50 AM, you wrote:
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2. What is the recommended version of Opensolaris to use at the moment that has iscsi? Is there a stable-like branch or is it better to stay on the N-1 update?
3. Which leads to: coming from Debian, how easy is sy
On 2/18/07, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If by VI you are referring to VMware Infrastructure...you won't get
any support from VMware if you're using the iSCSI target on Solaris as
its not approved by them. Not that this is really a problem in my
experience as VMware tech suppo
Hi Nicholas,
ZFS itself is very stable and very effective as fast FS in our
experience. If you browse the archives of the list you'll see that NFS
performance is pretty acceptable, with some performance/RAM quirks
around small files:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?threadID=19858
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Is there a best practice guide for using zfs as a basic rackable small
storage solution?
I'm considering zfs with a 2U 12 disk Xeon based server system vs
something like a second hand FAS250.
Target enviroment is mixature of Xen or VI hosts via iSCSI and nfs/cifs.
Being able to take snapshots o
