Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-22 Thread tranceash
Hi Andreas I will explain to you what I need . You say IMHO is simpler than AVS thats good . I have setup 2 nexentacore boxes with zfs pools and nfs on the first node. Now I need to install the open-ha cluster software with non shared disks. I now need to make zfs with nfs HA. I understand the

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-22 Thread Andreas GrĂ¼ninger
If you read this http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+colorado/files/Whitepaper-OpenHAClusterOnOpenSolaris-external.pdf and especially starting at page 25 you will find a detailed explanation how to implement a storage cluster with shared storage based on Comstar and ISCSI. If you want

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-22 Thread tranceash
Hi Andreas , The paper looks good are any basic examples on AVS or open-ha that explains the componets throughly and guides. What books or resource you recommend I get more information about this as I cant find any books -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-22 Thread tranceash
Hi Richard What do you mean by "A mirror would be simple" do you mean to use zfs send and receive. Also is the auto-cdp plugin free with nexenstor developer. Is there a detailed explaination of AVS where they explain all the companents involved like what is bitmap for etc. If AVS is there around

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-22 Thread Andreas GrĂ¼ninger
You may have a look in the whitepaper from Torsten Frueauf. see here http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/137/4/OpenSolaris/22016 This should give you the functionality of a DRBD-Cluster. Andreas -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:41 PM, tranceash wrote: > Hi Richard > > I was looking at nexentastor developer edition and I see they have given it a > nice gui > but I cant configure auto-cdp plugin can I configure it through the shell. The auto-cdp plugin is managed through nmc. It is simple to mana

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-21 Thread tranceash
Hi Richard I was looking at nexentastor developer edition and I see they have given it a nice gui but I cant configure auto-cdp plugin can I configure it through the shell. Also if the performance is problem what other options are there for a high availability zfs system across 2 systems. In

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:32 AM, c.hanover wrote: > In my earlier investigations of ZFS, I ran across a product called StorageTek > Availability Suite that sounds like it might do what you want. If I recall > correctly, it would allow you to define devices that are actually hosted on > another ser

Re: [zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-21 Thread c.hanover
In my earlier investigations of ZFS, I ran across a product called StorageTek Availability Suite that sounds like it might do what you want. If I recall correctly, it would allow you to define devices that are actually hosted on another server, and you could use ZFS to mirror those devices. Th

[zfs-discuss] build a zfs continuous data replication in opensolaris

2010-04-21 Thread tranceash
I have setup 2 servers with zfs pools I want to replicate continously to the second server is there a way I can do it with zfs are there any examples I can follow to build this setup. There are no good books on opensolaris explaining this method. Also are there a script repository for zfs stuf