[zfs-discuss] Pogo Linux ships NexentaStor pre-installed boxes

2008-08-01 Thread Erast Benson
Hi folks, wanted to share some exciting news with you. Pogo Linux shipping NexentaStor pre-installed boxes, like this one 16TB - 24TB: http://www.pogolinux.com/quotes/editsys?sys_id=3989 And here is announce: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=56 P

[zfs-discuss] NexentaStor API & Windows SDK published

2008-08-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hey folks, just saw another cool news this morning - Nexenta Systems released documentation for remote API and Windows SDK with demos for accessing NexentaStor. News itself: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=56 ZFS and the rest of appliance function

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: any effort for snapshot management

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
Steffen, Most complete and serious ZFS snapshot management, integrated ZFS send/recv replication over RSYNC with CLI, integrated AVS, GUI and management server which provides rich API for C/C++/Perl/Python/Ruby integrators available here: http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-overview Its ZFS+ with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
Well, obviously - its Linux vs. OpenSolaris question. Most serious advantage of OpenSolaris is ZFS and its enterprise level storage stack. Linux just not there yet.. On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:51 +0200, Axel Schmalowsky wrote: > Hallo list, > > hope that so can help me on this topic. > > I'd like

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite > (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much less flexible than > DRBD. For example, AVS is intended to replicate in one direction, > from a primary to a seconda

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite > >> (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much less flexible than > >> DRBD. For example, AVS is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite > >> >> (AVS), the DRBD equivalent i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:10 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >> A disadvantage, however, is that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:42 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:10 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -04

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Erast Benson
James, all serious ZFS bug fixes back-ported to b85 as well as marvell and other sata drivers. Not everything is possible to back-port of course, but I would say all critical things are there. This includes ZFS ARC optimization patches, for example. On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 22:33 +1000, James C. McPh

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-16 Thread Erast Benson
pNFS is NFS-centric of course and it is not yet stable, isn't it? btw, what is the ETA for pNFS putback? On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:20 -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > It's interesting how the speed and optimisation of these maintenance > > activities limit pool size. It'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar production-ready?

2009-03-03 Thread Erast Benson
Hi Stephen, NexentaStor v1.1.5+ could be an alternative, I think. And it includes new cool COMSTAR integration, i.e. ZFS shareiscsi property actually implements COMSTAR iSCSI target "share" functionality not available in SXCE. http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-relnotes On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:

Re: [zfs-discuss] AVS and ZFS demos - link broken?

2009-03-17 Thread Erast Benson
James, also there is this demo: http://www.nexenta.com/demos/auto-cdp.html showing how AVS/ZFS integrated in NexentaStor. On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:25 -0600, James D. Rogers wrote: > The links to the Part 1 and Part 2 demos on this page > (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/Demos/) appear

Re: [zfs-discuss] Public ZFS API ?

2009-03-18 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:53 -0400, Cherry Shu wrote: > Are any plans for an API that would allow ZFS commands including > snapshot/rollback integrated with customer's application? Sounds like you are looking for abstraction layering on top of integrated solution such as NexentaStor. Take a look o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Solaris as a VMWare guest

2007-03-12 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:53 -0600, James Dickens wrote: > > > On 3/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What issues, if any, are likely to surface with using Solaris > inside vmware as a guest os, if I choose to use ZFS? > > works great in vmware server, IO rate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data Management API

2007-03-20 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:22 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Robert Milkowski wrote: > > Hello devid, > > > > Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 3:58:27 PM, you wrote: > > > > d> Does ZFS have a Data Management API to monitor events on files and > > d> to store arbitrary attribute information with a file? A

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data Management API

2007-03-20 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:29 -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:22 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > Hello devid, > > > > > > Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 3:58:27 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > d>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Erast Benson
Did you measure CPU utilization by any chance during the tests? Its T2000 and CPU cores are quite slow on this box hence might be a bottleneck. just a guess. On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:10 -0400, Tony Galway wrote: > I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits “out of box” > performance of UFS

[zfs-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-06 Thread Erast Benson
Announcing new direction of Open Source NexentaOS development: NexentaCP (Nexenta Core Platform). NexentaCP is Dapper/LTS-based core Operating System Platform distributed as a single-CD ISO, integrates Installer/ON/NWS/Debian and provides basis for Network-type installations via main or third-part

[zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:26 -0400, Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:51:08PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... > > Is it based on Alpha7? Alpha7 is the Desktop-oriented ISO, however they share the same main

[zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-22 Thread Erast Benson
New unstable ISO of NexentaCP (Core Platform) available. http://www.gnusolaris.org/unstable-iso/ncp_beta1-test2-b67_i386.iso Changes: * ON B67 based * ZFS/Boot manual partitioning support implemented (in addition to auto-partitioning). Both, Wizard and FDisk types fully supported. * gcc/g++ now

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Erast Benson
ptic package manager is really impressive > is there a way to transform Sun package to a synaptic package? > > selim > > On 6/22/07, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: > > > > > New unstable ISO of NexentaCP

[zfs-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, This is the road to NCP 1.0... Our motto: """Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best Debian Server/Storage platform.""" Some latest Nexenta related news: 1) Official Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) repository now is http://apt.nexenta.org 2) Unstable APT integrated

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Thank you! we are working on it. new website is coming, as well as next release of NCP. Meanwhile, old RC1 could be downloaded from: http://archive.nexenta.org/releases On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:01 -0800, MC wrote: > > 2) Unstable APT integrated with ON build 79, give it a try! > > Excellent pro

[zfs-discuss] Integrated transactional upgrades with ZFS

2008-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
Hi guys, new article available explaining details on how enterprise-like upgrades integrated with Nexenta Core Platform starting from RC2 using ZFS capabilities and Debian APT: http://www.nexenta.org/os/TransactionalZFSUpgrades What is NexentaCP? NexentaCP is a minimal (core) foundation that ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue fixing ZFS corruption

2008-01-23 Thread Erast Benson
I believe issue been fixed in snv_72+, no? On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:41 -0800, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > The Silicon Image 3114 controller is known to corrupt data. > Google for "silicon image 3114 corruption" to get a flavor. > I'd suggest getting your data onto different h/w, quickly. > > Jeff > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue fixing ZFS corruption

2008-01-23 Thread Erast Benson
well, we had some problems with si3124 driver, but with driver binary posted in this forum the problem seems been fixed. Later we saw the same fix went in into b72. On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 05:11 +0300, Jonathan Stewart wrote: > Jeff Bonwick wrote: > > The Silicon Image 3114 controller is known to co

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here: http://www.nexenta.com/demo

Re: [zfs-discuss] five megabytes per second with Microsoft iSCSI initiator (2.06)

2008-02-19 Thread Erast Benson
http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/x4500_solaris_zfs_iscsi_perfect On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:44 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > It would be useful if people here who have used iSCSI on top of ZFS > could share their performance experiences. It is very easy to waste a > lot of time trying to r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-07 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:30 -0800, Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: > > > Yuen L. Lee wrote: > > opensolaris could be a nice NAS filer. I posted > > my question on "How to build a NAS box" asking for > > instructions on how to build a Solaris NAS box. > > It looks like everyone is busy. I haven't got any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS as root FS

2006-11-28 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:46 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Lori Alt wrote: > > Latest plan is to release zfs boot with U5. It definitely isn't going > > to make U4. > > We have new prototype bits, but they haven't been putback yet. There are > > a number of design decisions that have hinged on