Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Limit - 255 iSCSI targets

2013-04-01 Thread Mike La Spina
Nordli geo...@gnaa.netmailto:geo...@gnaa.net wrote: On 13-03-31 01:20 AM, Mike La Spina wrote: The maximum is actually 1024 on the iscsi port end: xref: /illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/comstar/port/iscsit/iscsit.h 55/* Max targets per system */ 56#defineISCSIT_MAX_TARGETS1024 How

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Limit - 255 iSCSI targets

2013-03-31 Thread Mike La Spina
The maximum is actually 1024 on the iscsi port end: xref: /illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/comstar/port/iscsit/iscsit.h 55/* Max targets per system */ 56#define ISCSIT_MAX_TARGETS 1024 How have you determined it's 255? --Mike -Original Message- From: Richard Elling

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-30 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Sebastian, Some examples using RBAC in my blog entry http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zf s could help. Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:53 AM To:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-30 Thread Mike La Spina
Some additional example in this one http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/encapsulating-vt-d-accelerated-zfs-sto rage-within-esxi -Original Message- From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:53 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR iSCSI fail-over

2012-09-02 Thread Mike La Spina
I suspect you need to include the zfs properties with your zfs send, -p will provide them. Regards, Mike http://blog.laspina.ca -Original Message- From: Florian [mailto:flor...@acw.at] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 6:40 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mounting smb IN OI

2012-07-07 Thread Mike La Spina
Checkout http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1449/smbclientadmintaskstm. html -Original Message- From: michelle [mailto:miche...@msknight.com] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 6:33 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mounting smb IN OI On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shareiscsi and COMSTAR

2012-06-26 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Jim, 1) Is COMSTAR still not-integrated with shareiscsi ZFS attributes? Or can the pool use the attribute, and the correct (new COMSTAR) iSCSI target daemon will fire up? COMSTAR is not integrated with ZFS and it will ignore the ZFS props. What is the release of the old host OS? I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

2012-06-25 Thread Mike La Spina
I have observed the same SATA hard disk error wait behavior over many operating systems. It's a SATA hardware issue. I have even observed it on expensive high end storage servers. (HP, IBM, etc.) The SATA disk or subsystem is trying to correct/recover errors, it should not and just return the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recognizing disks

2012-06-24 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Adam, Possibly the LSI controller was not matched to a driver. Check the controller model and verify it is on the HCL. Run: pfexec prtconf | grep driver to observer any devices that are not bound to a driver. http://illumos.org/hcl/ Typically I have found that the some RAID mode

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] recognizing disks

2012-06-24 Thread Mike La Spina
Jun 2012, at 17:24, Mike La Spina wrote: Hi Adam, Possibly the LSI controller was not matched to a driver. Check the controller model and verify it is on the HCL. Run: pfexec prtconf | grep driver to observer any devices that are not bound to a driver. http://illumos.org/hcl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] intermittent network? (rge device)

2012-06-19 Thread Mike La Spina
I have one system running an rge card. No issues at all, it's running 2 years now with 134 through 151a4. It a storage server and it's running light to medium load. What else do you have configured? NWAM? Layer 2 dladm elements? dmesg output? Does snoop reveal anything when it goes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularlyhangs.

2012-06-12 Thread Mike La Spina
Does the suspend event only occur on SMB clients or does it impact the other storage clients when triggered by the Windows clients? Any domain controller event errors? dmsg output? fmdump -eV output? uname -a output? Have you attempted a packet capture of the event? snoop -o smb-client.cap

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-04 Thread Mike La Spina
Everything you asked seems to be fully covered by our community. Just wanted to add the following; Not all SSDs are made for slog usage. Be aware that low end (and even some high endones) SSDs may not successfully commit a write operation to the flash write cell address boundary due to a power

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR qlt dropping link and resetting

2012-05-21 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Adrian, The SanBoxes? - Nexsan nothing in their logs OK Dmesg? : May 17 17:33:47 hagrid fct: [ID 132490 kern.notice] NOTICE: qlt1,0 LINK UP, portid 20300, topology Fabric Pt-to-Pt,speed 8G May 17 17:33:48 hagrid fct: [ID 132490 kern.notice] NOTICE: qlt0,0 LINK UP, portid 10400,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem route traceroute pkg.openindiana.orgon 109.71.206.26

2012-05-19 Thread Mike La Spina
Arhipkin, Did you try traceroute -I pkg.openindiana.org Many ISP's do not respond to UDP pings. In this case it looks like the pkg host was actually down. Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: Arhipkin Ilya [mailto:i...@arhipkin.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 5:26 AM To:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR qlt dropping link and resetting

2012-05-19 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Adrian, What logs have you checked. The SanBoxes? Dmesg? Stmf service? Are you running snapshots? Dedup? Compression? IRQ sharing? echo ::interrupts | mdb -k -Original Message- From: Adrian Carpenter [mailto:ta...@wbic.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 3:26 AM To:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggregate (dladm)

2012-05-15 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Tim, I always create users for automated functions and never use root unless its forced. As well I usually create a group which is used to assign any required rights for the role or function. The cron job should be assigned to the running user which you can always edit as a primary admin. e.g.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggregate (dladm)

2012-05-15 Thread Mike La Spina
Sorry its Mark not Tim, Hit reply on the next list message. -Original Message- From: Mike La Spina Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:18 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggregate (dladm) Hi Tim, I always create users for automated

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot-archive timing out after 3ware driverinstall

2012-05-10 Thread Mike La Spina
The only thing I can think of is ... did you refresh the active service manifest? e.g. svcadm refresh boot-archive:default -Original Message- From: Ian Levesque [mailto:i...@crystal.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 1:07 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] unable to start nfs

2012-05-07 Thread Mike La Spina
Tim, If you use that method your NFS share properties will only live in the hosts dfstab file. By setting zfs properties you achieve the same thing except the share follows the zfs filesystem. (nas/vol0 in this example) e.g. zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid,root=vmware-host-ip-etc sp1/nas/vol0 zfs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana ldap client

2012-05-05 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Tim, Try the following change to the nsswitch.conf file # consult /etc files only if ldap is down. hosts: files dns mdns ldap This will set the resolution order to; 1 local hosts file, 2 dns, 3 multicast dns, 4 ldap lookup Regards, Mike -Original Message- From: Tim Dunphy

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs honoring cache flush?

2012-04-25 Thread Mike La Spina
This was corrected if you're an Illumos build after Jan 2012 Bug ID 1909 http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2012/01/search/MTA5MA/sort/time_rev/page/1/?search_for=1909 -Original Message- From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI as a combined storage server andvirtual server enviroment

2012-04-20 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi, You can do all of that and much more. Here is one example. http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zf s Regards, Mike http://blog.laspina.ca/ -Original Message- From: Mats Taraldsvik [mailto:mats.taralds...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012