Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make a ZFS pool with discs of the other machines of the LAN?

2009-03-09 Thread Thiago Martins
I'll drop AoE in favor of the iSCSI to export my 20 discs from Linux Debian 
Lenny to OpenSolaris 2008.11. Now, I believe this setup will be more compatible 
with OpenSolaris OS.

Thanks!
Thiago

- Thiago Martins thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br escreveu:

 Sriram,
 
 - Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org escreveu:
 
  On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Thiago C. M. Cordeiro | World Web
  thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br wrote:
   Hi!
  
    Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs
 of
  500G in raid1, each node sees only its own raid1 volume, I do not
 have
  live motion of my virtual machines... and moving the data from one
  hypervisor to another is a pain task...
  
    Now that I discovered this awesome file system! I want that the
 ZFS
  manages all my discs in a network environment.
  
    But I don't know the best way to make a pool using all my 20
 discs
  in one big pool with 10T of capacity.
  
    My first contact with Solaris, was with the OpenSolaris 2008.11,
 as
  a virtual machine (paravirtual domU) on a Linux (Debian 5.0) dom0. I
  also have more opensolaris on real machines to make the tests...
  
    I'm thinking in export all my 20 discs, through the AoE protocol,
  and in my dom0 that I'm running the opensolaris domU (in HA through
  the Xen), I will make the configuration file for it (zfs01.cfg) with
  20 block devices of 500G and inside the opensolaris domu, I will
 share
  the pool via iSCSI targets and/or NFS back to the domUs of my
  cluster...  Is this a good idea?
 
  I share a three disk pool over NFS for some VMWare ESXi based
  hosting.
 This three discs are on the same machine or in three distinct?
 I mean, your pool have three local or remote discs?
 
  There is considerably high disk I/O caused by the apps that run on
  these VMs. ZFS + NFS is working fine for me.
 
  I intend to experiment with iSCSI later when I free up some machines
  for such an experiment.
 
  -- Sriram
 
 Thanks!
 -
 Thiago
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Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make a ZFS pool with discs of the other machines of the LAN?

2009-03-07 Thread Thiago Martins
Sriram,

- Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org escreveu:

 On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Thiago C. M. Cordeiro | World Web
 thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br wrote:
  Hi!
 
   Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs of
 500G in raid1, each node sees only its own raid1 volume, I do not have
 live motion of my virtual machines... and moving the data from one
 hypervisor to another is a pain task...
 
   Now that I discovered this awesome file system! I want that the ZFS
 manages all my discs in a network environment.
 
   But I don't know the best way to make a pool using all my 20 discs
 in one big pool with 10T of capacity.
 
   My first contact with Solaris, was with the OpenSolaris 2008.11, as
 a virtual machine (paravirtual domU) on a Linux (Debian 5.0) dom0. I
 also have more opensolaris on real machines to make the tests...
 
   I'm thinking in export all my 20 discs, through the AoE protocol,
 and in my dom0 that I'm running the opensolaris domU (in HA through
 the Xen), I will make the configuration file for it (zfs01.cfg) with
 20 block devices of 500G and inside the opensolaris domu, I will share
 the pool via iSCSI targets and/or NFS back to the domUs of my
 cluster...  Is this a good idea?
 
 I share a three disk pool over NFS for some VMWare ESXi based
 hosting.
This three discs are on the same machine or in three distinct?
I mean, your pool have three local or remote discs?

 There is considerably high disk I/O caused by the apps that run on
 these VMs. ZFS + NFS is working fine for me.
 
 I intend to experiment with iSCSI later when I free up some machines
 for such an experiment.
 
 -- Sriram

Thanks!
-
Thiago
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Re: [zfs-discuss] How to make a ZFS pool with discs of the other machines of the LAN?

2009-03-06 Thread Thiago Martins
Hello!

 I want to know something... It is okay export the AoE discs to the virtual 
OpenSolaris machine through dom0?

 For example, in dom0 I'd like to have:

from node01 via AoE to dom0 - opensolaris01 domU
500G /dev/ether/e1.0 (c3d1 /xpvd/x...@1)
500G /dev/ether/e1.1 (c3d2 /xpvd/x...@2)

from node02 via AoE to dom0 - opensolaris01 domU
500G /dev/ether/e2.0 (c3d3 /xpvd/x...@3)
500G /dev/ether/e2.1 (c3d4 /xpvd/x...@4)

from node03 via AoE to dom0 - opensolaris01 domU
500G /dev/ether/e3.0 (c3d5 /xpvd/x...@5)
500G /dev/ether/e3.1 (c3d6 /xpvd/x...@6)
...
from node07 via AoE to dom0 - opensolaris01 domU
500G /dev/ether/e7.0 (c3d5 /xpvd/x...@13)
500G /dev/ether/e7.1 (c3d6 /xpvd/x...@14)
...

 The AoE devices will appear as discs in the virtual OpenSolaris machine, then 
I can make my big ZFS pool and export it via iSCSI/NFS/SMB using another dom0 
ethernet interface...

 The AoE arrives to dom0 via eth1 and appear as discs in opensolaris01 domU, 
and then, the pool is exported as iSCSI, etc, via opensolaris01 xnf0 interface 
-bridged to- eth0 of the dom0.


-
 Thiago

- Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org escreveu:

 On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Thiago C. M. Cordeiro | World Web
 thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br wrote:
  Hi!
 
   Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs of
 500G in raid1, each node sees only its own raid1 volume, I do not have
 live motion of my virtual machines... and moving the data from one
 hypervisor to another is a pain task...
 
   Now that I discovered this awesome file system! I want that the ZFS
 manages all my discs in a network environment.
 
   But I don't know the best way to make a pool using all my 20 discs
 in one big pool with 10T of capacity.
 
   My first contact with Solaris, was with the OpenSolaris 2008.11, as
 a virtual machine (paravirtual domU) on a Linux (Debian 5.0) dom0. I
 also have more opensolaris on real machines to make the tests...
 
   I'm thinking in export all my 20 discs, through the AoE protocol,
 and in my dom0 that I'm running the opensolaris domU (in HA through
 the Xen), I will make the configuration file for it (zfs01.cfg) with
 20 block devices of 500G and inside the opensolaris domu, I will share
 the pool via iSCSI targets and/or NFS back to the domUs of my
 cluster...  Is this a good idea?
 
 I share a three disk pool over NFS for some VMWare ESXi based
 hosting.
 There is considerably high disk I/O caused by the apps that run on
 these VMs. ZFS + NFS is working fine for me.
 
 I intend to experiment with iSCSI later when I free up some machines
 for such an experiment.
 
 -- Sriram
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