Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Management Center

[julian]

Thanks again, the stuff I like is free. A little background  recently 
changed jobs where I used to work heavily with Nagios & Cacti within a big 
linux / freebsd setup and have now moved to a place that pretty much 
exclusively uses Sun but lacks any real monitoring or performance graphing that 
I'm used to having.

Neither Nagios or Cacti seem to fit the bill for various reasons, we also use 
IBM DB2 and Websphere7 but for the moment its hardware and O/S stuff I'm 
interested in.

So I stumbled across SMC, I wasn't aware it was coming to EOL but its free as 
far as I can tell. As for Halcyon and Oracle Enterprise Manager if they cost 
money then I'll take a look and see what they can do.

Thanks - J.
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[osol-discuss] opensolaris iscsi target gives 10% performance compared to nexenta

[chris]

I have been testing nexenta against opensolaris 2009.06 as an iscsi target / 
storage repository for Xenserver 5.6 using the same hardware and vm 
configuration. The target has two xeon quad-core cpus, 4gb ram and 4 seagate 
drives with opensolaris on the first and a 1tb volume on other three.

Opensolaris seems to perform very badly compared to nexenta when performing 
sqlio tests on a Windows 2008 Server R2 virtual machine. The IOs/s and MB/s 
from opensolaris are apporximately 10% (300 and 20) of the results from nexenta.

Are there tweaks to opensolaris that will increase the iscsi performance and 
explain the difference in performance?

Thanks,

Chris

sqlio tests I was running

sqlio -kW -t2 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat >> 
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kW -t4 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat >> 
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat >> 
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kW -t16 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat >> 
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kR -t2 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat >> 
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kR -t4 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat >> 
sqlioResults-opensolaris
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[osol-discuss] Test16 nicdrv_pseudo@0:nicdrv_pseudo

[fhamad]

can I run test16 on Solari10 OS? 
is it not supported? I just find that 
/devices/pseudo/nicdrv_pse...@0:nicdrv_pseudo 
not found on Solaris10 u9.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Test16 nicdrv_pseudo@0:nicdrv_pseudo

[Gireesh Nagabhushana]

?I am not sure about compatibility with S10U9. But you can find 
nicdrv_pseudo module along with NICDRV.
It should be at 
${STF_SUITE}/tools/irmtool/irm_driver/$(isainfo -n)/nicdrv_pseudo.


-- Gireesh


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Subject: [osol-discuss] Test16 nicdrv_pse...@0:nicdrv_pseudo

can I run test16 on Solari10 OS?
is it not supported? I just find that 
/devices/pseudo/nicdrv_pse...@0:nicdrv_pseudo

not found on Solaris10 u9.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Copyright and License Terms (was Re: Solaris 11 Express)

[Martti Hamunen]

Only question,
...and is it, Solaris 11 Express already possible download?

mjh
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Re: [osol-discuss] pkg info vs pkginfo -il

[Rand S. Huntzinger]

No. The pkg command will only list IPS packages.  The pkginfo command lists 
both SVR4 and IPS packages (using the information stored in the IPS repository 
to support SVR4 package commands).
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Re: [osol-discuss] pkg info vs pkginfo -il

[Rand S. Huntzinger]

Oops - I only answered your second question.  I don't know the answer to the 
first. As far as the third question, pkginfo should give you a full list but it 
really isn't the native command for IPS packages and IPS is the primary 
packaging system on the system. I keep an inventory which generates two lists, 
one of IPS packages using "pkg list" and one of SVR4 packages generated using 
pkginfo and filtering out packages in the IPS list. I'm not sure if that is the 
best way to list all the packages but it allows me to keep the two different 
types of packages separate.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Copyright and License Terms (was Re: Solaris 11 Express)

[Matthias Pfützner]

I've not yet seen any Oracle Solaris 11 Express downloads yet...

 Matthias

You (Martti Hamunen) wrote:
> Only question,
> ...and is it, Solaris 11 Express already possible download?
> 
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Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris iscsi target gives 10% performance compared to nexenta

[Eric Andersen]

Are you using COMSTAR or the old iSCSI target on OpenSolaris?
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Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris iscsi target gives 10% performance compared to nexenta

[chris]

Comstar.

Thanks,

Chris
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Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris iscsi target gives 10% performance compared to nexenta

[Eric Andersen]

Have you tried disabling the ZIL to see if that is your bottleneck?
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Re: [osol-discuss] Copyright and License Terms (was Re: Solaris 11 Express)

[Calum Benson]

On 7 Oct 2010, at 15:41, Matthias Pfützner wrote:

> I've not yet seen any Oracle Solaris 11 Express downloads yet...

No, it's not yet available for download, and Oracle has not yet announced a 
release date AFAIK (other than "expected before the end of 2010", which is 
stated in the press release at 
).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Copyright and License Terms (was Re: Solaris 11 Express)

[Alan Coopersmith]

Martti Hamunen wrote:
> Only question,
> ...and is it, Solaris 11 Express already possible download?

No, it is not yet released.

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[osol-discuss] Well supported Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapters on OSOL/OIND

[Dusan Kysel]

The Marvell 8059 Gigabit controller of my motherboard does unfortunately not 
have any drivers for OpenSolaris:

  http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=498048


I am therefore looking for a PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Dual Port NIC with low 
latency (usable for latency sensitive apps), a stable, well performing and 
feature complete driver for OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana.


I am trying to make an informed decision between:

ProductCode: EXPI9402PT/EXPI9402PTBLK
BrandName: Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter
Chipset: 82571GB
IntelGeneration: Fifth
ProductBrief: 
http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/prodbrief/pro1000_pt_dualport_server_adapter.pdf
Driver: e1000g

ProductCode: E1G42ET
BrandName: Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Server Adapter
Chipset: 82576
IntelGeneration: Third
ProductBrief: http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/prodbrief/320116.pdf
Driver: igb

According to the Intel Ethernet Adapter Overview:

  http://download.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/prodbrf/252454.pdf

the ET card provides 3 features the PT is lacking: IPsec, VMDq, SR-IOV.
Do OpenSolaris drivers support these features or is support for them being 
worked on?


On the other hand the PT card is described as "Fifth generation of Intel 
network adapters for Gigabit Ethernet" whereas the ET as "Intels third 
generation of PCIe GbE network adapters". Are these just marketing gimmicks or 
does the "fifth generation" provide any real technical advantages?

Are there currently any bugs in the e1000g and igb drivers related to these 
adapters? (there have been complaints about connection losses / driver hangs)

I have read claims that the igb drivers implement much of the functionality in 
software and therefore burden the CPU and perform worse than e1000g that are 
supposedly leveraging the hardware much better. Is there any truth to this?


Can you please share your recommendations and experiences with these adapters 
and their drivers on Opensolaris/Solaris/OpenIndiana/Illumos?

Recommendations of any alternate Dual Port Gigabit Adapters are welcome as well.

Thanks.

=Dusan
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Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris iscsi target gives 10% performance compared to nexenta

[Shawn Walker]

On 10/ 7/10 02:43 AM, chris wrote:

I have been testing nexenta against opensolaris 2009.06 as an iscsi target / 
storage repository for Xenserver 5.6 using the same hardware and vm 
configuration. The target has two xeon quad-core cpus, 4gb ram and 4 seagate 
drives with opensolaris on the first and a 1tb volume on other three.

Opensolaris seems to perform very badly compared to nexenta when performing 
sqlio tests on a Windows 2008 Server R2 virtual machine. The IOs/s and MB/s 
from opensolaris are apporximately 10% (300 and 20) of the results from nexenta.

Are there tweaks to opensolaris that will increase the iscsi performance and 
explain the difference in performance?

Thanks,

Chris

sqlio tests I was running

sqlio -kW -t2 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat>>  
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kW -t4 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat>>  
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kW -t8 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat>>  
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kW -t16 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat>>  
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kR -t2 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat>>  
sqlioResults-opensolaris
sqlio -kR -t4 -s120 -dM -o1 -frandom -b64 -BH -LS testfile.dat>>  
sqlioResults-opensolaris


I'd strongly suggest trying the 134a 'development' build for 
OpenSolaris.  You can download an ISO image [1] or a USB image suitable 
for use with the 'usbcopy' utility [2].


Nexenta is likely based on a much newer build than OpenSolaris 2009.06 
which could explain the performance difference.


-Shawn

[1] http://genunix.org/dist/indiana/osol-dev-134-x86.iso
[2] http://genunix.org/dist/indiana/osol-dev-134-x86.usb
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Re: [osol-discuss] pkg info vs pkginfo -il

[Shawn Walker]

On 10/ 6/10 07:46 PM, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:

But why do the "fake" version strings differ depending on the tool used? Is 
there a translation/conversion I should use for them?


The only version string that's "fake" is the one from "pkginfo".  It 
differs because it's just placeholder information to satisfy SVR4 
package dependencies.



Is it correct then to say that on OpenSolaris I should only use: pkg and NOT 
use pkginfo at all? And pkg will show all the SVR4 stuff with the correct 
versions etc?


If it is for an SVR4 package, you must use 'pkginfo' to obtain package 
information.  Otherwise, you must use 'pkg info'.



If the above is not true, then if there are some SVR4 packages installed in an 
OpenSolaris system, what is the correct method to get a complete (SVR4 and IPS) 
list of software packages installed and avoiding or removing duplicates.


There's no easy way to get a list of all installed packages for both IPS 
+ SVR4 that avoids duplicates.


Unless SVR4 packages have been installed, there's no reason to use 
'pkginfo', and so the output of 'pkg list' should be sufficient.


-Shawn
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Re: [osol-discuss] Copyright and License Terms (was Re: Solaris 11 Express)

[Gary]

Regarding much of the recent discussion re licensing changes, I found
the following interesting bit in Wikipedia entry on Solaris dev builds
and wonder if it still holds true: "Although the download license seen
when downloading the image files indicates its use is limited to
personal, educational and evaluation purposes, the license acceptance
form displayed when the user actually installs from these images lists
additional uses including commercial and production environments."

q.v. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)#Development_release

-Gary
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