>So, the only supported (or even possible) way is indeed to us it
>as NAS for file or block IO from another head running the database
>or application servers?..
Technically speaking you can get access to standard shell and do whatever
you want - this would essentially void support contract though
On 11/23/12 05:50, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2012-11-22 17:31, Darren J Moffat wrote:
Is it possible to use the ZFS Storage appliances in a similar
way, and fire up a Solaris zone (or a few) directly on the box
for general-purpose software; or to shell-script administrative
tasks such as the backup a
On Wed, November 21, 2012 16:06, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2012-11-21 21:55, Ian Collins wrote:
>> I can't help thinking these drives would be overkill for an ARC device.
>> All of the expensive controller hardware is geared to boosting random
>> write IOPs, which somewhat wasted on a write slowly, re
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2012-11-22 17:31, Darren J Moffat wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to use the ZFS Storage appliances in a similar
>>> way, and fire up a Solaris zone (or a few) directly on the box
>>> for general-purpose software; or to shell-script administrati
On 2012-11-22 17:31, Darren J Moffat wrote:
Is it possible to use the ZFS Storage appliances in a similar
way, and fire up a Solaris zone (or a few) directly on the box
for general-purpose software; or to shell-script administrative
tasks such as the backup archive management in the global zone
(
On 11/22/12 16:24, Jim Klimov wrote:
A customer is looking to replace or augment their Sun Thumper
with a ZFS appliance like 7320. However, the Thumper was used
not only as a protocol storage server (home dirs, files, backups
over NFS/CIFS/Rsync), but also as a general-purpose server with
unpre
A customer is looking to replace or augment their Sun Thumper
with a ZFS appliance like 7320. However, the Thumper was used
not only as a protocol storage server (home dirs, files, backups
over NFS/CIFS/Rsync), but also as a general-purpose server with
unpredictably-big-data programs running direc
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins
>
> I look after a remote server that has two iSCSI pools. The volumes for
> each pool are sparse volumes and a while back the target's storage
> became full, causing weird and won
