On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:11 PM, sol wrote:
> A partial workaround was to turn off access time on the share and to mount
> with
> noatime,actimeo=60
>
> But that's not perfect because when left along the VM got into a "stuck"
> state.
> I've never seen that state before when the VM was hosted on
Hmmm, that's odd. I have a number of VMs running on NFS (hosted on ESX, rather
than Xen) with no problems at all. I did add a SLOG device to get performance
up to a reasonable level, but it's been running flawlessly for a few months
now. Previously I was using iSCSI for most of the connections,
On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:11 PM, sol wrote:
> Richard Elling wrote:
>> Gregory Gee wrote:
>>> I am using OpenSolaris to host VM images over NFS for XenServer. I'm
>>> looking
>> for tips on what parameters can be set to help optimize my ZFS pool that
>> holds
>> my VM images.
>> There is nothing
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Richard Elling wrote:
> Gregory Gee wrote:
> > I am using OpenSolaris to host VM images over NFS for XenServer. I'm
> > looking
>for tips on what parameters can be set to help optimize my ZFS pool that holds
>my VM images.
> There is nothing special about tuning for VMs, the normal NFS tuning a
Thanks. I guess I am in a 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it' for my NFS setup.
Thanks,
Greg
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On Jul 20, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Gee wrote:
> To further this question, I have been searching for a while and can't find
> any reference to the difference and benefits between zfs sharenfs and nfs
> share. Currently I am using standard NFS I believe.
>
> share -F nfs -o anon=0,sec=sys,rw=x
To further this question, I have been searching for a while and can't find any
reference to the difference and benefits between zfs sharenfs and nfs share.
Currently I am using standard NFS I believe.
share -F nfs -o anon=0,sec=sys,rw=xenserver0:xenserver1 /files/VM
ad...@nas:/files$ zfs list
On Jul 19, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Gregory Gee wrote:
> I am using OpenSolaris to host VM images over NFS for XenServer. I'm looking
> for tips on what parameters can be set to help optimize my ZFS pool that
> holds my VM images. I am using XenServer which is running the VMs from an
> NFS storage o
