Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-07 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Harry, I'd stick with VirtualBox if you're not looking to do anything serious. For example, say you just want to run Windows on your OI desktop

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Flarity
Great opportunity to update the Wiki: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Community+HCL On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Gary Mills gary_mi...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Will OI b151a work OK with the following boards:    **X9SCM-F:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Flarity
No open sign up? Wiki fail. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Great opportunity to update the Wiki: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Community+HCL On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Gary Mills gary_mi...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI support for recent Supermicro motherboards?

2011-12-06 Thread Geoff Flarity
, with an internal link to the 'servers' ACL page. Tks for your mileage report. (I'd love to start a similar page for storage subsystem reports - hardware used, gotchas, bonnie++ reports, etc.) Lou Picciano - Original Message - From: Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com To: Discussion list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Dec 4, 2011 7:21 PM, Joshua M. Clulow j...@sysmgr.org wrote: On 5 December 2011 10:41, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Stay away from AMD if you're hoping to use this system with KVM. There's no AMD support yet, and who knows when there will be. Depending on how much

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Lou Picciano loupicci...@comcast.net wrote: Harry - You may be getting into SuperMicro mobo space at this point... (others here will have some specific recommendations for you). On the other hand - the latest Sandy Bridge Architectures will support 32 GB even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a Unbuntu Guest Under KVM

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: I did this recently without any problems. On 02/12/2011, at 10:36 AM, Geoff Flarity wrote: Ok, so I changed the -vnc to so use an outside world accessible ip: -vnc outside world ip:01 I used -vnc 0.0.0.0:1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a Unbuntu Guest Under KVM

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: I did this recently without any problems. On 02/12/2011, at 10:36 AM, Geoff Flarity wrote: Ok, so I changed the -vnc to so use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Ivar Janmaat ijanm...@xs4all.nl wrote: The AMD FX 8150 (8 core) in combination with a ASUS Crasshair V (has Intel networkinterface) might be interesting for you. The 8 GB unbuffered ddr3 dimms are hard to get and expensive. Maybe start with 16 GB en upgrade

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-02 Thread Geoff Flarity
I'm not sure who nobody is exactly? Given everyone's feedback it sounds like using filebench and paying close attention to synchronous write performance is a good way to begin. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Gary Mills gary_mi...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:59:48AM -0600,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-01 Thread Geoff Flarity
I've used filebench on solaris 10 for testing different disk combinations for a database servers a head of a major purchase. I had to write my own graphing scripts, but the information was very informative. My advice would be to max out your RAM (for ARC) before you bother with a ZIL, or L2ARC.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a Unbuntu Guest Under KVM

2011-12-01 Thread Geoff Flarity
Hi, I've got Ubuntu booting under kvm and now I'm trying to vnc into it in order to install it. I've got an ssh tunnel going through to localhost:5901 which the kvm-qemu vnc server seems to be listening on, ie the port opens with telnet. When I try to connect to the vm with vnc no window comes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a Unbuntu Guest Under KVM

2011-12-01 Thread Geoff Flarity
forward, but I really want to know why I can connect with ssh? Any ideas? On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got Ubuntu booting under kvm and now I'm trying to vnc into it in order to install it. I've got an ssh tunnel going through to localhost

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151a as akvm under rhel6.x hosts

2011-11-30 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:48 AM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,  Somebody have tried to install OI 151a under rhel6.x kvm hosts?? Works well?? how about performance?? Is OI stable under this platform?? Are you looking to just test OI out? Not sure I see the use case here,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151a as akvm under rhel6.x hosts

2011-11-30 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:59 AM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/30/2011 03:51 PM, Geoff Flarity wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:48 AM, carlopmartcarlopm...@gmail.com  wrote: Hi all,  Somebody have tried to install OI 151a under rhel6.x kvm hosts?? Works well?? how about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-11-30 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Andy Lubel alu...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, and you are probably exporting each disk as a raid 0, pseudo jbod with some BBC.. I suppose that's an option for us but it really shouldn't be that way.  The H200 can only create 2 raid disks anyways. Is there any

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Zone Networking under VirtualBox

2011-11-29 Thread Geoff Flarity
Hi, I should preface this by saying that while I've used Solaris 10 for 3 years a developer, I'm a very novice sysadmin. I'm very strongly considering using OI for a production deployment. One requirement however is that it run inside VirtualBox so that developers and create a VM for development

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos Documentation

2011-11-29 Thread Geoff Flarity
Hi, If one wanted to learn more about OI/Illumos by reading some Oracle Solaris documentation, would Solaris 11 Express be the the most similar to OI (as opposed to Solaris 11 say)? Are there bits that don't apply besides the lack of stuff related to KVM for example? Here's a link Solaris 11

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zone Networking under VirtualBox

2011-11-29 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jeppe Toustrup openindi...@tenzer.dk wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 20:30, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I should preface this by saying that while I've used Solaris 10 for 3 years a developer, I'm a very novice sysadmin. I'm very strongly

[OpenIndiana-discuss] IO Throttling

2011-11-18 Thread Geoff Flarity
Hi, Has the IO Throtting work that Joyent has done made it's way into Illumos/Open Indiana yet? Is this on the horizon? Cheers, GF ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IO Throttling

2011-11-18 Thread Geoff Flarity
Interesting. Any idea what the gist of the concerns are? I know that the granularity is by zone which disappointed some folks. On 2011-11-18 12:56 PM, Richard Lowe richl...@richlowe.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:43, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Has the IO