On 13-01-04 02:08 PM, Richard Elling wrote:
All of these IOPS -- VDI users guidelines are wrong. The problem
is that the variability of
response time is too great for a HDD. The only hope we have of
getting the back-of-the-napkin
calculations to work is to reduce the variability by using a
Thanks Richard, Happy New Year.
On 13-01-03 09:45 AM, Richard Elling wrote:
On Jan 2, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net
mailto:geo...@gnaa.net wrote:
I am looking at the performance numbers for the Oracle VDI admin guide.
http://docs.oracle.com/html/E26214_02/performance
I am looking at the performance numbers for the Oracle VDI admin guide.
http://docs.oracle.com/html/E26214_02/performance-storage.html
From my calculations for 200 desktops running Windows 7 knowledge user
(15 iops) with a 30-70 read/write split it comes to 5100 iops. Using
7200 rpm disks the
On 12-11-16 03:02 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2012-11-15 21:43, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Instead of using vdi, I use comstar targets and then use vbox built-in
scsi initiator.
Out of curiosity: in this case are there any devices whose ownership
might get similarly botched, or you've tested
On 12-11-15 11:57 AM, Edward Ned Harvey
(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote:
When I google around for anyone else who cares and may have already
solved the problem before I came along - it seems we're all doing the
same thing for the same reason.If by any chance you are running
Dan,
If you are going to do the all in one with vbox, you probably want to look
at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/
It manages the starting/stopping of vbox vms via smf.
Kudos to Jim Klimov for creating and maintaining it.
Geoff
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Dan Swartzendruber
I am running NexentaOS_134f
This is really weird, but I for some reason the defer_destroy property
is being set on new snapshots and I can't turn it off. Normally it
should be enabled when using the zfs destroy -d command. The property
doesn't seem to be inherited from anywhere.
It seems
trying to figure out a reliable way to identify drives to make sure I pull the
right drive when there is a failure. These will be smaller installations
(16 drives)
I am pretty sure the wwn name on a sas device is preassigned like a MAC
address, but I just want to make sure. Is there any
-Original Message-
From: Thierry Delaitre
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:42 AM
To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: [zfs-discuss] Using Solaris iSCSI target in VirtualBox iSCSI
Initiator
Hello,
Im using ZFS to export some iscsi targets for the virtual box iscsi
initiator.
From: Edward Ned Harvey
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: [zfs-discuss] a single nfs file system shared out twice with
different
permissions
From: Richard Elling
zfs create tank/snapshots
zfs set sharenfs=on tank/snapshots
on by default sets the NFS share parameters to:
From: Richard Elling
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] a single nfs file system shared out twice with
different
permissions
On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote:
From: Edward Ned Harvey
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:25 AM
From: Darren J Moffat
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 4:15 AM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] a single nfs file system shared out twice with
different
permissions
On 18/12/2010 07:09, Geoff Nordli wrote:
I am trying to configure a system where I have two different NFS
shares which point to the same
-Original Message-
From: Edward Ned Harvey
[mailto:opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 6:13 AM
To: 'Geoff Nordli'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: RE: [zfs-discuss] a single nfs file system shared out twice with
different
permissions
I am trying to configure a system where I have two different NFS shares
which point to the same directory. The idea is if you come in via one path,
you will have read-only access and can't delete any files, if you come in
the 2nd path, then you will have read/write access.
For example, create
I am running the latest version of Nexenta Core 3.0 (b134 + extra
backports).
The time to run zfs list is starting to increase as the number of datasets
increase where it takes almost 30 seconds now to return 1500 datasets.
r...@zfs1:/etc# time zfs list -t all | wc -l
1491
real
Is there a way to find out if a dataset has children or not using zfs
properties or other scriptable method?
I am looking for a more efficient way to delete datasets after they are
finished being used. Right now I use custom property to set delete=1 on a
dataset, and then I have a script that
From: Darren J Moffat
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:03 AM
On 27/09/2010 18:14, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Is there a way to find out if a dataset has children or not using zfs
properties or other scriptable method?
I am looking for a more efficient way to delete datasets after
From: Richard Elling
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:01 PM
On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Are there any properties I can set on the clone side?
Each clone records its origin snapshot in the origin property.
$ zfs get origin syspool/rootfs-nmu-001
NAME
I am running Nexenta NCP 3.0 (134f).
My stmf configuration was corrupted. I was getting errors like in
/var/adm/messages:
Sep 1 10:32:04 llift-zfs1 svc-stmf[378]: [ID 130283 user.error] get
property view_entry-0/all_hosts failed - entity not found
Sep 1 10:32:04 llift-zfs1 svc.startd[9]: [ID
From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 8:34 PM
boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Nordli
Anyone have any experience with a R510 with the PERC H200/H700
controller with ZFS?
My perception is that Dell doesn't play well with OpenSolaris.
I
Anyone have any experience with a R510 with the PERC H200/H700 controller
with ZFS?
My perception is that Dell doesn't play well with OpenSolaris.
Thanks,
Geoff
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-Original Message-
From: Brian Hechinger [mailto:wo...@4amlunch.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 8:10 AM
To: Geoff Nordli
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] PowerEdge R510 with PERC H200/H700 with ZFS
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:00:11AM -0700, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Anyone have any experience
I have an Intel X25-M 80GB SSD.
For optimum performance, I need to block align the SSD device, but I am not
sure exactly how I should to it.
If I run the format - fdisk it allows me to partition based on a cylinder,
but I don't think that is sufficient enough.
Can someone tell me how
-Original Message-
From: Erik Trimble
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] block align SSD for use as a l2arc cache
On 7/9/2010 5:55 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
I have an Intel X25-M 80GB SSD.
For optimum performance, I need to block align the SSD
Actually, I think the rule-of-thumb is 270 bytes/DDT
entry. It's 200
bytes of ARC for every L2ARC entry.
DDT doesn't count for this ARC space usage
E.g.:I have 1TB of 4k files that are to be
deduped, and it turns
out that I have about a 5:1 dedup ratio. I'd also
like to see
From: Arne Jansen
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 3:21 AM
Now the test for the Vertex 2 Pro. This was fun.
For more explanation please see the thread Crucial RealSSD C300 and cache
flush?
This time I made sure the device is attached via 3GBit SATA. This is also
only a
short test. I'll retest after
-Original Message-
From: Linder, Doug
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 12:53 PM
Try doing inline quoting/response with Outlook, where you quote one
section,
reply, quote again, etc. It's impossible. You can't split up the quoted
section to
add new text - no way, no how. Very infuriating.
From: Fco Javier Garcia
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:21 AM
Realistically, I think people are overtly-enamored with dedup as a
feature - I would generally only consider it worth-while in cases
where you get significant savings. And by significant, I'm talking an
order of magnitude space
On Behalf Of Joe Auty
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:27 AM
I'd love to use Virtualbox, but right now it (3.2.2 commercial which I'm
evaluating, I haven't been able to compile OSE on the CentOS 5.5 host yet)
is
giving me kernel panics on the host while starting up VMs which are
obviously
Brandon High wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:33 AM, besson3c j...@netmusician.org wrote:
What VM software are you using? There are a few knobs you can turn in VBox
which will help with slow storage. See
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html#id2662300 for instructions on
reducing the
-Original Message-
From: Matt Connolly
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 5:08 AM
I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands:
sh-4.0# zfs create rpool/iscsi
sh-4.0# zfs set shareiscsi=on rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs create -s -V 10g
rpool/iscsi/test
The underlying
-Original Message-
From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:solar...@nedharvey.com]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:29 AM
I was messing around with a ramdisk on a pool and I forgot to remove
it before I shut down the server. Now I am not able to mount the
pool. I am not concerned with the data
I was messing around with a ramdisk on a pool and I forgot to remove it
before I shut down the server. Now I am not able to mount the pool. I am
not concerned with the data in this pool, but I would like to try to figure
out how to recover it.
I am running Nexenta 3.0 NCP (b134+).
I have
From: James C. McPherson [mailto:james.mcpher...@oracle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:28 AM
On 12/05/10 03:18 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
I have been wondering what the compatibility is like on OpenSolaris.
My perception is basic network driver support is decent, but storage
-Original Message-
From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 5:56 PM
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote:
Doesn't this alignment have more to do with aligning writes to the
stripe/segment size of a traditional storage array
On Behalf Of James C. McPherson
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5:41 PM
On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote:
I agree on the motherboard and peripheral chipset issue.
This, and the last generation AMD quad/six core motherboards
all seem to use the AMD SP56x0/SP5100 chipset, which I can't
-Original Message-
From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:55 AM
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote:
I am looking at using 8K block size on the zfs volume.
8k is the default for zvols.
You are right, I didn't look
I am using ZFS as the backing store for an iscsi target running a virtual
machine.
I am looking at using 8K block size on the zfs volume.
I was looking at the comstar iscsi settings and there is also a blk size
configuration, which defaults as 512 bytes. That would make me believe that
-Original Message-
From: Ross Walker [mailto:rswwal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 7:08 AM
We are currently porting over our existing Learning Lab Infrastructure
platform from MS Virtual Server to VBox + ZFS. When students
connect into
their lab environment it dynamically
From: Ross Walker [mailto:rswwal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:34 AM
On Apr 20, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@grokworx.com wrote:
If you combine the hypervisor and storage server and have students
connect to the VMs via RDP or VNC or XDM then you will have
From: matthew patton [mailto:patto...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:54 PM
Geoff Nordli geo...@grokworx.com wrote:
With our particular use case we are going to do a save
state on their
virtual machines, which is going to write 100-400 MB
per VM via CIFS or
NFS, then we take
or they will be joining San Jose on the sidelines. With Ottawa,
Montreal on the way out too, it could be a tough spring for Canadian hockey
fans.
On Apr 18, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
Hi Richard.
Can you explain in a little bit more detail how this process works?
Let's say you are writing
On Apr 13, 2010, at 5:22 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote:
I was wondering if any data was lost while doing a snapshot on a
running system?
ZFS will not lose data during a snapshot.
Does it flush everything to disk or would some stuff be lost?
Yes, all ZFS data will be committed to disk and then the
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