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: > > I have been recommend

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-14 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Gregory Durham wrote: > I have been recommended by several other users on this mailing list to use > inside the vm snapshots, vmware snapshots, and then use zfs snapshots. I > believe I understand the difference between filesystem snapshots vs block > level snapsh

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-14 Thread Gregory Durham
I have been recommended by several other users on this mailing list to use inside the vm snapshots, vmware snapshots, and then use zfs snapshots. I believe I understand the difference between filesystem snapshots vs block level snapshots, however since I cannot use vmware snapshots (all LUNs on the

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 if they were on is the lea

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Gregory Durham wrote: > 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. As Tim said, The snapshot disk are in the same state they would be i

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Gregory Durham
ovide the same > (or a better) level of fault-tolerance. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Arnaud > > > > *De :* zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto: > zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] *De la part de* Tim Cook > *Envoyé :* mardi 12 janvier 2010 04:36

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

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-12 Thread Arnaud Brand
@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] De la part de Tim Cook Envoyé : mardi 12 janvier 2010 04:36 À : Greg Cc : zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Objet : Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Greg mailto:gregory.dur...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hel

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Greg wrote: > Hello All, > I hope this makes sense, I have two opensolaris machines with a bunch of > hard disks, one acts as a iSCSI SAN, and the other is identical other than > the hard disk configuration. The only thing being served are VMWare esxi raw > disks,

[zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-11 Thread Greg
Hello All, I hope this makes sense, I have two opensolaris machines with a bunch of hard disks, one acts as a iSCSI SAN, and the other is identical other than the hard disk configuration. The only thing being served are VMWare esxi raw disks, which hold either virtual machines or data that the p