Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-18 Thread Gil Vidals
I haven't seen too much talk about the actual file read and write speeds. I recently converted from using OpenFiler, which seems defunct based on their lack of releases, to using NexentaStor. The NexentaStor server is connected to my ESXi hosts using 1 gigabit switches and network cards: The speed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-18 Thread Saxon, Will
> -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of > Edward Ned Harvey > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:54 PM > To: 'Günther'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ES

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-18 Thread VO
> -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > Sent: 19 November 2010 09:54 > To: 'Günther'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > SAS Controller > and all ZFS Disks/ Pools are passed-through to Nexenta to have full ZFS-Disk > control like on real hardware. This is precisely the thing I'm interested in. How do you do that? On my ESXi (test) server, I hav

[zfs-discuss] Question about SLOG for Nexenta HA cluster

2010-11-18 Thread Saxon, Will
What are people using for slog in a cluster scenario? Assuming the competition is a DDRdrive, is there anything reasonable available? Is it still just STEC/Pliant SSDs or a ramsan-style appliance? I see Hitachi released a SAS SSD earlier this week but it's not available or well understood at t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-18 Thread David Magda
On Nov 16, 2010, at 05:09, Darren J Moffat wrote: Both CCM[1] and GCM[2] are provided so that if one turns out to have flaws hopefully the other will still be available for use safely even though they are roughly similar styles of modes. On systems without hardware/cpu support for Galios mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Miles Nordin wrote: In the unlikely event there was any impediment to your writing, and releasing, the paper, hopefully my complaining will be one among many things that helps remove it. Really, it is just mandatory. Thanks for removing your impediment. The world will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-18 Thread Günther
Up to last year we have had 4 exsxi4 server, each with its own NFS-storage server (NexentaStor/ Core+napp-it), directly connected via 10Gbe CX4. The second CX4 Storage-Port was connected to our San (Hp 2910 10Gbe Switch) for backups. The second port of each ESXI Server was connected (tagged Vlan

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-18 Thread Miles Nordin
> "zu" == zfs user writes: > "djm" == Darren J Moffat writes: zu> Ugh, we all know that the first rule of crytpo is that any zu> proprietary, closed source, "black-box" crypto is crap, blah, zu> blah, blah (I am not sure what the point of repeating that zu> tired line is)

Re: [zfs-discuss] SUNWzfsg missing in Solaris 11 express?

2010-11-18 Thread Craig Morgan
It was never a component that was released as part of OpenSolaris and as Sol11Exp is a derivative of that release rather than the Solaris10 line then I guess its not included. The GUI was a plug-in to Sun WebConsole which is/was a Solaris10 feature … I would expect some integration of that goin

[zfs-discuss] SUNWzfsg missing in Solaris 11 express?

2010-11-18 Thread SR
SUNWzfsg (zfs admin gui) seems to be missing from Solaris 11 express. Is this no longer available or has it been integrated with something else? Suresh -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator

2010-11-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Markus, Let me correct/expand this: 1. If you create a RAIDZ pool on OS 11 Express (b151a), you will have some mirrored metadata. This feature integrated into b148 and the pool version is 29. This is the part I mixed up. 2. If you have an existing RAIDZ pool and upgrade to b151a, you would need

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-18 Thread moazam
The FusionIO MLC PCI-e device I tested is capacitor backed (just not super-cap). The OCZ Deneva SATA SSD I tested is super-cap backed. -Moazam On Nov 18, 2010 6:17am, David Magda wrote: On Thu, November 18, 2010 05:11, Moazam Raja wrote: > I tested the Fusion IO MLC based PCI-e cards on

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator

2010-11-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Markus, Jeff Bonwick integrated this feature so I'll let him describe it. In a nutshell: If you create a RAIDZ pool in OS 11 Express or if you are running at least build 129, some of the pool metadata is mirrored automatically. This is a performance feature that should increase read I/O perf

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-18 Thread David Magda
On Thu, November 18, 2010 05:11, Moazam Raja wrote: > I tested the Fusion IO MLC based PCI-e cards on OpenSolaris and found > the performance to be amazing. Hopefully Fusion IO will release > supported drivers for Solaris 11 Express and onwards. The Fusion IO > MLC card was giving me around 500MB/s

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import is this safe to use "-f" option in this case ?

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 17, 2010, at 3:06 AM, sridhar surampudi wrote: > Hi, > > My understanding is ZFS itself is a great file system by combining fs/vm with > the numerous feature added to it. > > In the similar lines existing fs/vm and array snapshot are still in use and > customers is requesting similar k

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 18/11/2010 03:55, grarpamp wrote: One reason you may want to select aes-128-gcm rather than aes-128-ccm is that GCM is one of the modes for AES in NSA Suite B[3], but CCM is not. Are there symmetric algorithms other than AES that are of interest ? How might AES-XTS [1] be able to fit into

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 17/11/2010 20:04, Miles Nordin wrote: "djm" == Darren J Moffat writes: djm> http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/introducing_zfs_crypto_in_oracle djm> http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/assued_delete_with_zfs_dataset djm> http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/compress_encrypt_checks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-18 Thread Bruno Sousa
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:31:32 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +, Bruno Sousa wrote: >>>    Hi all, >>> >>>    Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a >>>    windows fileserver

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-18 Thread Bruno Sousa
I confirm that form the fileserver point of view and storage, i had more network connections used. Bruno On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:00:21 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +, Bruno Sousa wrote: >>Hi all, >> >>Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* mak

[zfs-discuss] RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator

2010-11-18 Thread Markus Kovero
Hi, I'm referring to; http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6977913 It should be in Solaris 11 Express, has anyone tried this? How this is supposed to work? Any documentation available? Yours Markus Kovero ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] WarpDrive SLP-300

2010-11-18 Thread Moazam Raja
I tested the Fusion IO MLC based PCI-e cards on OpenSolaris and found the performance to be amazing. Hopefully Fusion IO will release supported drivers for Solaris 11 Express and onwards. The Fusion IO MLC card was giving me around 500MB/s write performance with O_SYNC. -Moazam On Wed, Nov 17, 2