Re: [osol-discuss] eSATA works fine?

2011-03-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
I dont think that was the problem. When I booted the PC, I press F12 which gives me a menu of different hardware I can boot from: CD, USB, Hard disks, etc. I chose to boot from hard disks, and I chose to boot from the internal system disk - but it didnt work - I could not boot Solaris. The

[osol-discuss] zpool upgrade, zfs upgrade, risks?

2011-03-17 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi All, this weekend i will upgrade our main server from snv_111b to snv_151a (Solaris 11 express). This will not really be an upgrade, but a new installation. I tested the new system on identical hardware (except for the data pool) and installed it on an external USB disk, which i can simply

[osol-discuss] IPS Technology Spotlight

2011-03-17 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi all, In the lead up to Oracle Solaris 11, we're putting a bit of a spotlight on some of the technology included in the platform each month. For March it's the Image Packaging System - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/technologies/ips-323421.html You'll be

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS dedup destroy woes!

2011-03-17 Thread Menno
[..SNIP..] we decided to do just as you did, get a truckload of drives and let others fiddle with dedup until it's stable. Agreed, deduplication on ZFS has never been stable enough to use in production and I even regret using it in a testlab environment; it just grinds all I/O to a halt

Re: [osol-discuss] zpool upgrade, zfs upgrade, risks?

2011-03-17 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/18/11 12:57 AM, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi All, this weekend i will upgrade our main server from snv_111b to snv_151a (Solaris 11 express). This will not really be an upgrade, but a new installation. I tested the new system on identical hardware (except for the data pool) and installed

Re: [osol-discuss] zpool upgrade, zfs upgrade, risks?

2011-03-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: My questions is about our 5 TB data pool: * Is there any risk in upgrading zpool and zfs? I'm not aware of any and I've done quite a lot of upgrades. I can think of one: If you've done an OS upgrade, upgrading the

Re: [osol-discuss] zpool upgrade, zfs upgrade, risks?

2011-03-17 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:46 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: My questions is about our 5 TB data pool: * Is there any risk in upgrading zpool and zfs? I'm not aware of any and I've done quite a lot of upgrades. I

Re: [osol-discuss] zpool upgrade, zfs upgrade, risks?

2011-03-17 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Heinrich, Yes, you need pool version 16 (stmf property) to use COMSTAR. Thanks, Cindy On 03/17/11 16:22, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:46 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com mailto:i...@ianshome.com wrote: My