Depending on your cpu&motherboard, an alternative 'all in one' server is to run ESXi on it, and virtualize OI. A key requirement for good performance is that cpu/motherboard support vt-d (pci pass-through.) the only trick is that you need two disk controllers - one that you pass through, and one to run a single (small & cheap) disk for the local datastore that OI would live on. Be aware though that this is not officially supported by VMWare, so you need to make sure you are using HW that people know works.
-----Original Message----- From: Mike La Spina [mailto:mike.lasp...@laspina.ca] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:41 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI as a combined storage serverandvirtual server enviroment Hi, You can do all of that and much more. Here is one example. http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zf s Regards, Mike http://blog.laspina.ca/ -----Original Message----- From: Mats Taraldsvik [mailto:mats.taralds...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:31 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI as a combined storage server andvirtual server enviroment Hi, I'm currently using EON ZFS as a storage server, but would like to be able to host a couple of virtual machines as well -- using only a single server. Will I, using OI, be able to share a zpool between the virtual machines (created with KVM or another OI-supported technology, and stored in the same or a different zpool), either directly,through nfs or iscsi? Regards, Mats Taraldsvik _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss