Morning all...
I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB
drives, but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and
so far everything is going ok... I have the 2 drives as standard data
stores...
But i am paranoid... So, i installed Nexenta as a VM, g
On 11/07/2012 12:39 PM, Tiernan OToole wrote:
> Morning all...
>
> I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB
> drives, but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and
> so far everything is going ok... I have the 2 drives as standard data
> stores..
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:58:04PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 12:39 PM, Tiernan OToole wrote:
> > Morning all...
> >
> > I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB
> > drives, but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and
> > so fa
On 11/07/2012 01:16 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> I'm very interested, as I'm currently working on an all-in-one with
> ESXi (using N40L for prototype and zfs send target, and a Supermicro
> ESXi box for production with guests, all booted from USB internally
> and zfs snapshot/send source).
Well, seein
Thanks Eugen.
yea, i am with Hetzner, but no hardware passthough... As for ESXi, i am
happy with it, but its not booting from USB... its using the disk to boot
from... I am thinking of using a USB key to boot from though... just need
to figure out how to remotely do this and if i should...
Thanks
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:33:41PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 01:16 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > I'm very interested, as I'm currently working on an all-in-one with
> > ESXi (using N40L for prototype and zfs send target, and a Supermicro
> > ESXi box for production with guests, all b
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole
>
> I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB
> drives,
> but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and so far
> everything is
On 11/7/2012 10:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey
(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote:
I formerly did exactly the same thing. Of course performance is abysmal
because you're booting a guest VM to share storage back to the host where the
actual VM's run. Not to mention, there's the startup de
Same thing here. With the right setup, an all-in-one system based on
VMWare can be very solid and perform well.
I've documented my process here: http://serverfault.com/a/398579/13325
But I'm surprised at the negative comments about VMWare in this context. I
can't see how Virtual Box would run bett
On 11/7/2012 10:53 AM, Edmund White wrote:
Same thing here. With the right setup, an all-in-one system based on
VMWare can be very solid and perform well.
I've documented my process here: http://serverfault.com/a/398579/13325
But I'm surprised at the negative comments about VMWare in this contex
On 2012-11-07 16:02, Edward Ned Harvey
(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote:
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole
I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB drives,
but only softwa
> From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com]
>
> I'm curious here. Your experience is 180 degrees opposite from mine. I
> run an all in one in production and I get native disk performance, and
> ESXi virtual disk I/O is faster than with a physical SAN/NAS for the NFS
> datastore, since
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
>
> Stuff like that. I could go on, but it basically comes down to: With
> openindiana, you can do a lot more than you can with ESXi. Because it's a
> complete OS. You simply have more freedom, better performance, less
> mainten
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