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

2010-11-19 Thread erik.ableson
On 19 nov. 2010, at 03:53, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: 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.

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

2010-11-19 Thread Günther
hmmm br http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide br br Disabling the ZIL (Don't) br Caution: Disabling the ZIL on an NFS server can lead to client side corruption. The ZFS pool integrity itself is not compromised by this tuning. brbr so especially with nfs i won`t

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

2010-11-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 19/11/2010 00:39, David Magda wrote: 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

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

2010-11-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
The design for ZFS crypto was done in the open via opensolaris.org and versions of the source (though not the final version at this time) are available on opensolaris.org. It was reviewed by internal and external to Sun/Oracle people who have considerable crypto experience. Important parts

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

2010-11-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Saxon, Will [mailto:will.sa...@sage.com] In order to do this, you need to configure passthrough for the device at the host level (host - configuration - hardware - advanced settings). This Awesome. :-) The only problem is that once a device is configured to pass-thru to the guest VM,

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

2010-11-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of VO How to accomplish ESXi 4 raw device mapping with SATA at least: http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14t=1025 It says: You can pass-thru individual disks, if you have SCSI, but

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

2010-11-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of VO This sounds interesting as I have been thinking something similar but never implemented it because all the eggs would be in the same basket. If you don't mind me asking for more

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

2010-11-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Gil Vidals [mailto:gvid...@gmail.com] connected to my ESXi hosts using 1 gigabit switches and network cards: The speed is very good as can be seen by IOZONE tests: KB  reclen   write rewrite    read    reread 512000  32    71789   76155    94382   101022 512000 1024   75104

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

2010-11-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Günther br br Disabling the ZIL (Don't) br This is relative. There are indeed situations where it's acceptable to disable ZIL. To make your choice, you need to understand a few things...

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

2010-11-19 Thread erik.ableson
On 19 nov. 2010, at 15:04, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Günther br br Disabling the ZIL (Don't) br This is relative. There are indeed situations where it's acceptable to disable ZIL. To

[zfs-discuss] Replacing log devices takes ages

2010-11-19 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
Disclaimer: Solaris 10 U8. I had an SSD die this morning and am in the process of replacing the 1GB partition which was part of a log mirror. The SSDs do nothing else. The resilver has been running for ~30m, and suggests it will finish sometime before Elvis returns from Andromeda, though perhaps

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

2010-11-19 Thread Günther
i have the same problem with my 2HE supermicro server (24x2,5, connected via 6x mini SAS 8087) and no additional mounting possibilities for 2,5 or 3,5 drives. brbr on those machines i use one sas port (4 drives) of an old adaptec 3805 (i have used them in my pre zfs-times) to build a raid-1 +

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

2010-11-19 Thread Mark Little
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:16:20 PST, Günther wrote: i have the same problem with my 2HE supermicro server (24x2,5, connected via 6x mini SAS 8087) and no additional mounting possibilities for 2,5 or 3,5 drives. brbr on those machines i use one sas port (4 drives) of an old adaptec 3805 (i have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing log devices takes ages

2010-11-19 Thread Khushil Dep
I'm not sure that leaving the ZIL enabled whilst replacing the log devices is a good idea? Also - I had no idea Elvis was coming back tomorrow! Sweet. ;-) --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 19 November 2010 14:57, Bryan

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

2010-11-19 Thread Saxon, Will
-Original Message- From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 8:03 AM To: Saxon, Will; 'Günther'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: RE: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS From: Saxon, Will [mailto:will.sa...@sage.com]

[zfs-discuss] Deduped zfs streams broken in post b134 ?

2010-11-19 Thread evaldas
Hi, Here is a small script to test deduped zfs send stream: = #!/bin/bash ZFSPOOL=rpool ZFSDATASET=zfs-send-dedup-test dd if=/dev/random of=/var/tmp/testfile1 bs=512 count=10 zfs create $ZFSPOOL/$ZFSDATASET cp /var/tmp/testfile1 /$ZFSPOOL/$ZFSDATASET/testfile1 zfs snapshot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduped zfs streams broken in post b134 ?

2010-11-19 Thread evaldas
Sry, the script was cut off, ending part is: mp/ddtest-snap2.zfs = It works in OpenSolaris b134, but not in OpenIndiana b147, nor Solaris Express 11, where zfs receive exists on second incremental snapshot with error message: cannot receive incremental stream: invalid backup stream

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

2010-11-19 Thread Günther
Also, most of the big name vendors have a USB or SD option for booting ESXi. I believe this is the 'ESXi Embedded' flavor vs. the typical 'ESXi Installable' that we're used to. I don't think it's a bad idea at all. I've got a not-quite-production system I'm booting off USB right now, and