Re: [zfs-discuss] Public ZFS API ?

2009-03-18 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:53 -0400, Cherry Shu wrote: Are any plans for an API that would allow ZFS commands including snapshot/rollback integrated with customer's application? Sounds like you are looking for abstraction layering on top of integrated solution such as NexentaStor. Take a look on

Re: [zfs-discuss] AVS and ZFS demos - link broken?

2009-03-17 Thread Erast Benson
James, also there is this demo: http://www.nexenta.com/demos/auto-cdp.html showing how AVS/ZFS integrated in NexentaStor. On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:25 -0600, James D. Rogers wrote: The links to the Part 1 and Part 2 demos on this page (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/Demos/) appear

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar production-ready?

2009-03-03 Thread Erast Benson
Hi Stephen, NexentaStor v1.1.5+ could be an alternative, I think. And it includes new cool COMSTAR integration, i.e. ZFS shareiscsi property actually implements COMSTAR iSCSI target share functionality not available in SXCE. http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-relnotes On Wed, 2009-03-04 at

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-16 Thread Erast Benson
pNFS is NFS-centric of course and it is not yet stable, isn't it? btw, what is the ETA for pNFS putback? On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:20 -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's interesting how the speed and optimisation of these maintenance activities limit pool size. It's

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Erast Benson
James, all serious ZFS bug fixes back-ported to b85 as well as marvell and other sata drivers. Not everything is possible to back-port of course, but I would say all critical things are there. This includes ZFS ARC optimization patches, for example. On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 22:33 +1000, James C.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
Well, obviously - its Linux vs. OpenSolaris question. Most serious advantage of OpenSolaris is ZFS and its enterprise level storage stack. Linux just not there yet.. On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:51 +0200, Axel Schmalowsky wrote: Hallo list, hope that so can help me on this topic. I'd like to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much less flexible than DRBD. For example, AVS is intended to replicate in one direction, from a primary to a secondary,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much less flexible than DRBD. For example, AVS is intended

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:10 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:42 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:10 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: any effort for snapshot management

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
Steffen, Most complete and serious ZFS snapshot management, integrated ZFS send/recv replication over RSYNC with CLI, integrated AVS, GUI and management server which provides rich API for C/C++/Perl/Python/Ruby integrators available here: http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-overview Its ZFS+

[zfs-discuss] NexentaStor API Windows SDK published

2008-08-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hey folks, just saw another cool news this morning - Nexenta Systems released documentation for remote API and Windows SDK with demos for accessing NexentaStor. News itself: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=56 ZFS and the rest of appliance

[zfs-discuss] Pogo Linux ships NexentaStor pre-installed boxes

2008-08-02 Thread Erast Benson
Hi folks, wanted to share some exciting news with you. Pogo Linux shipping NexentaStor pre-installed boxes, like this one 16TB - 24TB: http://www.pogolinux.com/quotes/editsys?sys_id=3989 And here is announce: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=129Itemid=56

Re: [zfs-discuss] five megabytes per second with Microsoft iSCSI initiator (2.06)

2008-02-19 Thread Erast Benson
http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/x4500_solaris_zfs_iscsi_perfect On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:44 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It would be useful if people here who have used iSCSI on top of ZFS could share their performance experiences. It is very easy to waste a lot of time trying to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue fixing ZFS corruption

2008-01-23 Thread Erast Benson
well, we had some problems with si3124 driver, but with driver binary posted in this forum the problem seems been fixed. Later we saw the same fix went in into b72. On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 05:11 +0300, Jonathan Stewart wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: The Silicon Image 3114 controller is known to

[zfs-discuss] Integrated transactional upgrades with ZFS

2008-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
Hi guys, new article available explaining details on how enterprise-like upgrades integrated with Nexenta Core Platform starting from RC2 using ZFS capabilities and Debian APT: http://www.nexenta.org/os/TransactionalZFSUpgrades What is NexentaCP? NexentaCP is a minimal (core) foundation that

[zfs-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, This is the road to NCP 1.0... Our motto: Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best Debian Server/Storage platform. Some latest Nexenta related news: 1) Official Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) repository now is http://apt.nexenta.org 2) Unstable APT integrated with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Thank you! we are working on it. new website is coming, as well as next release of NCP. Meanwhile, old RC1 could be downloaded from: http://archive.nexenta.org/releases On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:01 -0800, MC wrote: 2) Unstable APT integrated with ON build 79, give it a try! Excellent

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Erast Benson
impressive is there a way to transform Sun package to a synaptic package? selim On 6/22/07, Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: New unstable ISO of NexentaCP (Core Platform) available. http://www.gnusolaris.org/unstable-iso/ncp_beta1-test2

[zfs-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Erast Benson
Announcing new direction of Open Source NexentaOS development: NexentaCP (Nexenta Core Platform). NexentaCP is Dapper/LTS-based core Operating System Platform distributed as a single-CD ISO, integrates Installer/ON/NWS/Debian and provides basis for Network-type installations via main or

[zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:26 -0400, Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:51:08PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... Is it based on Alpha7? Alpha7 is the Desktop-oriented ISO, however they share the same main APT repository, i.e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Erast Benson
Did you measure CPU utilization by any chance during the tests? Its T2000 and CPU cores are quite slow on this box hence might be a bottleneck. just a guess. On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:10 -0400, Tony Galway wrote: I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits “out of box” performance of UFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data Management API

2007-03-20 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:22 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello devid, Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 3:58:27 PM, you wrote: d Does ZFS have a Data Management API to monitor events on files and d to store arbitrary attribute information with a file? Any answer on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data Management API

2007-03-20 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:29 -0700, Erast Benson wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:22 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello devid, Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 3:58:27 PM, you wrote: d Does ZFS have a Data Management API to monitor events on files and d

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Solaris as a VMWare guest

2007-03-12 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:53 -0600, James Dickens wrote: On 3/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What issues, if any, are likely to surface with using Solaris inside vmware as a guest os, if I choose to use ZFS? works great in vmware server, IO rates suck.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-07 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:30 -0800, Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: Yuen L. Lee wrote: opensolaris could be a nice NAS filer. I posted my question on How to build a NAS box asking for instructions on how to build a Solaris NAS box. It looks like everyone is busy. I haven't got any response