Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card?
If it's helpful we use (or did anyway, since an advantage of ZFS is avoiding using proprietary RAID cards !) Areca, we have a test machine running OI_148 using an Areca ARC1200 (PCIe x1). Trev --- On Thu, 1/20/11, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: From: Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card? To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 11:50 PM When it comes to Marvells chips it some of them work on OSOL/OI and some of them don't. Look into the OpenSolaris HCL, if it signed/certified/native than it's fine but if it merely says reported to work I would be careful about it. I would not recommend anyone using JMicron controller chips as I have had tons of problems with them on several different motherboards. There are drivers for them in OSOL/OI but they are nothing but trouble. On 2011-01-20 23:09, Michelle Knight wrote: Hi Willard, Thank you for those links. I've had a look through and it is interesting that the cheaper cards are Marvell, though based on . The card I've got problems with is based on the Marvell 9128 chipset. Do you think I could run in to trouble? Michelle. On Thursday 20 January 2011 21:36:50 Willard Korfhage wrote: Here are some references to good cards: From 16 to 2 ports: Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS Linux MD RAID http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 Some discussion that followed the blog posting http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925 ___ 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 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card?
The Areca cards are probably quite nice. They provide their own drivers for their cards and they support Solaris. It looks like their cards are based on Intel's IOP chipsets but it isn't revealed explicitly on their website. The only objection I have against their cards is the price. On for example Newegg, an Areca 1200 card goes for $160 and it gives you two SATA ports. An intel SASUC8I goes for $155 on Newegg providing 8 ports. I also want to add to clarify; There was someone on this mailing lists who mentioned JBOD which is _not_ what you want to use if you intend to run ZFS on it. The preferred mode is IT mode which on LSI's controllers is done by flashing them with IT firmware. IT means Initiator-Target. The disks should be run either as RAID0 with one disk per stripe or as Single Disk, (different vendors have different names for the same thing), not JBOD which is a different thing. On 2011-01-21 11:36, trevor robinson wrote: If it's helpful we use (or did anyway, since an advantage of ZFS is avoiding using proprietary RAID cards !) Areca, we have a test machine running OI_148 using an Areca ARC1200 (PCIe x1). Trev --- On Thu, 1/20/11, Robin Axelssongu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: From: Robin Axelssongu99r...@student.chalmers.se Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card? To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 11:50 PM When it comes to Marvells chips it some of them work on OSOL/OI and some of them don't. Look into the OpenSolaris HCL, if it signed/certified/native than it's fine but if it merely says reported to work I would be careful about it. I would not recommend anyone using JMicron controller chips as I have had tons of problems with them on several different motherboards. There are drivers for them in OSOL/OI but they are nothing but trouble. On 2011-01-20 23:09, Michelle Knight wrote: Hi Willard, Thank you for those links. I've had a look through and it is interesting that the cheaper cards are Marvell, though based on . The card I've got problems with is based on the Marvell 9128 chipset. Do you think I could run in to trouble? Michelle. On Thursday 20 January 2011 21:36:50 Willard Korfhage wrote: Here are some references to good cards: From 16 to 2 ports: Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS Linux MD RAID http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 Some discussion that followed the blog posting http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
I know it's early days, but what's the possibility of getting an HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) page setup on the OI website? This would give community members a chance to provide information on what works and what does not, and perhaps share experiences on how to fix/tune certain components specific to that hardware. With Openindianna moving away from the original Opensolaris code base sooner or later the original HCL will start to become out of date. While I don't expect OI to maintain a list of 'certified hardware' (yet) if the distribution is going to penetrate production environments such a site would prove useful, rather than the suck it and see approach at the moment. Might also take some of the load off the bug submission etc. For information, Opensolaris has been removed from the main Sun/Oracle HCLpage (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) but is still accessiblehere (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/). Anybody wanting to take Matthew's suggestion and run with it? I don't know how to make this happen, perhaps a section on the Wiki or something, but given recent discussion over storage adaptors etc this would be a very useful resource. -- Dave Koelmeyer http://davekoelmeyer.wordpress.com/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
If there is interest in creating an HCL, I will get something setup on the wiki and maintain it. It will however rely on community contribution. As a project we don't have the resources yet to test every possible bit of kit out there. For the time being please feel free to email me and I'll add it to the list. Something along the lines of. Vendor Model Works? Notes/special instructions etc Thanks, Matt On 21 Jan 2011, at 11:53, Dave Koelmeyer davekoelme...@me.com wrote: I know it's early days, but what's the possibility of getting an HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) page setup on the OI website? This would give community members a chance to provide information on what works and what does not, and perhaps share experiences on how to fix/tune certain components specific to that hardware. With Openindianna moving away from the original Opensolaris code base sooner or later the original HCL will start to become out of date. While I don't expect OI to maintain a list of 'certified hardware' (yet) if the distribution is going to penetrate production environments such a site would prove useful, rather than the suck it and see approach at the moment. Might also take some of the load off the bug submission etc. For information, Opensolaris has been removed from the main Sun/Oracle HCLpage (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) but is still accessiblehere (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/). Anybody wanting to take Matthew's suggestion and run with it? I don't know how to make this happen, perhaps a section on the Wiki or something, but given recent discussion over storage adaptors etc this would be a very useful resource. -- Dave Koelmeyer http://davekoelmeyer.wordpress.com/ ___ 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
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 13:28, jay undernet jay@gmail.com wrote: Good idea. +1 we can add the build number of OI, categories and updates. please make sure it has good search capabilities! cheers Michael -- regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen Michael Schuster ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
On 21/01/2011 13:48, Michael Schuster wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 13:28, jay undernet jay@gmail.com wrote: Good idea. +1 we can add the build number of OI, categories and updates. please make sure it has good search capabilities! cheers Michael I've created some pages on the Wiki which will provide a starting point to record community hardware testing contributions. I'll start to create some tables within each category over the next week or so. Ken Mays is also doing some testing on Dell hardware. At the moment it's just on the Wiki. Over time we will no doubt have to look at putting this into a database of some sorts. But we have to start somewhere. Just to stress, this will be based on information and feedback received from the community. It's not a definitive guarantee or statement from the project. Your mileage may vary. :-) Cheers, Matt ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
Wouldn't it be easier to start with a simple html form and your favorite database backend? dumping everything out of a wiki into a more useful format will be a pain. On 01/21/11 09:09 AM, Matt Wilby wrote: On 21/01/2011 13:48, Michael Schuster wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 13:28, jay undernetjay@gmail.com wrote: Good idea. +1 we can add the build number of OI, categories and updates. please make sure it has good search capabilities! cheers Michael I've created some pages on the Wiki which will provide a starting point to record community hardware testing contributions. I'll start to create some tables within each category over the next week or so. Ken Mays is also doing some testing on Dell hardware. At the moment it's just on the Wiki. Over time we will no doubt have to look at putting this into a database of some sorts. But we have to start somewhere. Just to stress, this will be based on information and feedback received from the community. It's not a definitive guarantee or statement from the project. Your mileage may vary. :-) Cheers, Matt ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Dr. Daniel Kjar Assistant Professor of Biology Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Elmira College 1 Park Place Elmira, NY 14901 607-735-1826 http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar ...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies -E. O. Wilson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card?
Michelle, I would recommend a Sil 3132 or 3124 based card. Works like a charm for me. It even supports a Sil based 1 - 5 port multiplier. HTH Attila Michelle Knight wrote: Hi Folks, I've been driving myself crazy looking at SATA cards for the last few days. What I need is the following... 1) Compatable with OI (I'm really tripping myself up here 2) Lowest price possible 3) PCI-E 4) Ports needed - 2 E-SATA Version 3. Any recommendations please? Many thanks, Michelle. ___ 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
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
Matt, We have done lot of test on Intel Server various JBOD storage in our lab. We can also contribute to this list Rocky -Original Message- From: Matthew Wilby [mailto:matthewwi...@btinternet.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 4:18 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL If there is interest in creating an HCL, I will get something setup on the wiki and maintain it. It will however rely on community contribution. As a project we don't have the resources yet to test every possible bit of kit out there. For the time being please feel free to email me and I'll add it to the list. Something along the lines of. Vendor Model Works? Notes/special instructions etc Thanks, Matt On 21 Jan 2011, at 11:53, Dave Koelmeyer davekoelme...@me.com wrote: I know it's early days, but what's the possibility of getting an HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) page setup on the OI website? This would give community members a chance to provide information on what works and what does not, and perhaps share experiences on how to fix/tune certain components specific to that hardware. With Openindianna moving away from the original Opensolaris code base sooner or later the original HCL will start to become out of date. While I don't expect OI to maintain a list of 'certified hardware' (yet) if the distribution is going to penetrate production environments such a site would prove useful, rather than the suck it and see approach at the moment. Might also take some of the load off the bug submission etc. For information, Opensolaris has been removed from the main Sun/Oracle HCLpage (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) but is still accessiblehere (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/). Anybody wanting to take Matthew's suggestion and run with it? I don't know how to make this happen, perhaps a section on the Wiki or something, but given recent discussion over storage adaptors etc this would be a very useful resource. -- Dave Koelmeyer http://davekoelmeyer.wordpress.com/ ___ 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
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] svc and services
Hi Ann ;) The Service Management Facilty works a little bit different to the Legacy Init System In Case you have different Properties and groups svc:Service type /system/system-log Name :default Instance you will find your repository at bernd@kobold:/home/bernd$ ls /etc/svc repository.db its a sqlite based Database The repository is the source for all known services on the system, it imports the service manifest into the database and then never references the manifest again. The SMF Manifests are XML Scripts with following content Name of service Number of instances Start, stop and refresh methods Property groups Service model Fault handling Documentation template milestones are predefined sets of capabilities for a few set of services, comparable to legacy run levels If you want to know more about the services you could ask the Service Management Facility about a detailled Description... At example.. svcs -H -o FMRI,STATE,NSTATE,STIME,DESC -SSTATE svc:/* svc:/application/management/common-agent-container-1:default uninitialized - 10:37:29 - svc:/system/cluster/cznetd:default maintenance- 10:38:40 Sun Cluster virtual cluster network daemon svc:/system/cluster/cl-svc-cluster-milestone:default offline- 10:38:40 Synchronizing the cluster userland services svc:/system/boot-archive:default online - 10:37:28 check boot archive content svc:/system/device/local:default online - 10:37:41 Standard Solaris device configuration. svc:/milestone/devices:default online - 10:37:46 device configuration milestone svc:/system/identity:domainonline - 10:37:42 system identity (domainname) svc:/system/identity:node online - 10:37:21 system identity (nodename) svc:/system/filesystem/local:default online - 10:38:00 local file system mounts svc:/system/manifest-import:defaultonline - 10:37:45 service manifest import svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:defa -- If you would like to look on your legacy Services == lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S20sysetup legacy_run - 10:38:25 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S47pppd legacy_run - 10:38:25 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S72autoinstall legacy_run - 10:38:25 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S72sc_update_hosts legacy_run - 10:38:25 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S72sc_update_ntplegacy_run - 10:38:25 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S73cachefs_daemon legacy_run - 10:38:25 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S74xntpd_clusterlegacy_run - 10:38:25 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S77scpostconfig legacy_run - 10:38:26 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S81dodatadm_udaplt legacy_run - 10:38:26 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S89PRESERVE legacy_run - 10:38:26 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S95SUNWmd_binddevs legacy_run - 10:38:27 - lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S98deallocate legacy_run - 10:38:27 - lrc:/etc/rc If you would check your milestones. ;) svcs -H -o FMRI,STATE,NSTATE,STIME,DESC -SSTATE svc:/milestone/* - svc:/milestone/devices:default online - 10:37:46 device configuration milestone svc:/milestone/multi-user:default online - 10:38:27 multi-user milestone svc:/milestone/name-services:default online - 10:37:59 name services milestone svc:/milestone/single-user:default online - 10:37:58 single-user milestone svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default online - 10:38:34 multi-user plus exports milestone svc:/milestone/network:default online - 10:37:45 Network milestone svc:/milestone/sysconfig:default online - 10:38:05 Basic system configuration milestone --- If you want to check on service/daemon in this example you see the IPSec Daemon.. svcs -H -oDESC svc:/network/ipsec/ike:default ; svcs -H -oSTATE svc:/network/ipsec/ike:default ; svcs -H -oFMRI,STATE -D svc:/network/ipsec/ike:default ; svcs -l svc:/milestone/network:default ; IKE daemon disabled svc:/milestone/network:default online fmri svc:/milestone/network:default name Network milestone enabled true stateonline next_state none state_time 21 January 2011 10:37:45 CET logfile
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Driver security?
Oi Gang, An interesting article below. Are we at all exposed re our USB or NDIS drivers? http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/no-let-security-front-2011/2011-01-21 Snippet: Over in China, researchers from Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) have sounded the warning on new malware that intercepts and inspects network traffic in order to stymie the operation of cloud-based antivirus tools . While disabling the operation of antivirus applications is hardly new, the use of an NDIS driver in this case to monitor and modify data packets at the network level is surprisingly sophisticated. Read more: No let up on the security front in 2011 - FierceCIO:TechWatch http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/no-let-security-front-2011/2011-01-21#ixzz1BhZjoebp Subscribe: http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/signup?sourceform=Viral-Tynt-FierceCIOTechWatch-FierceCIOTechWatch ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
On 21/01/2011 17:54, Rocky Shek wrote: Matt, We have done lot of test on Intel Server various JBOD storage in our lab. We can also contribute to this list Rocky -Original Message- From: Matthew Wilby [mailto:matthewwi...@btinternet.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 4:18 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL If there is interest in creating an HCL, I will get something setup on the wiki and maintain it. It will however rely on community contribution. As a project we don't have the resources yet to test every possible bit of kit out there. For the time being please feel free to email me and I'll add it to the list. Something along the lines of. Vendor Model Works? Notes/special instructions etc Thanks, Matt On 21 Jan 2011, at 11:53, Dave Koelmeyer davekoelme...@me.com wrote: I know it's early days, but what's the possibility of getting an HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) page setup on the OI website? This would give community members a chance to provide information on what works and what does not, and perhaps share experiences on how to fix/tune certain components specific to that hardware. With Openindianna moving away from the original Opensolaris code base sooner or later the original HCL will start to become out of date. While I don't expect OI to maintain a list of 'certified hardware' (yet) if the distribution is going to penetrate production environments such a site would prove useful, rather than the suck it and see approach at the moment. Might also take some of the load off the bug submission etc. For information, Opensolaris has been removed from the main Sun/Oracle HCLpage (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) but is still accessiblehere (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/). Anybody wanting to take Matthew's suggestion and run with it? I don't know how to make this happen, perhaps a section on the Wiki or something, but given recent discussion over storage adaptors etc this would be a very useful resource. -- Dave Koelmeyer http://davekoelmeyer.wordpress.com/ ___ 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 Hi Rocky, Sure no problem. Ping me a list of hardware and I'll add it for you. Thanks, Matt ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
