Toby Thain wrote:
On 8-Nov-09, at 12:20 PM, Joe Auty wrote:
Tim Cook wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c j...@netmusician.org
mailto:j...@netmusician.org wrote:
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Why not just convert the VM's to run in virtualbox and run Solaris
directly on the hardware?
That's
Tim Cook wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c j...@netmusician.org
mailto:j...@netmusician.org wrote:
I'm entertaining something which might be a little wacky, I'm
wondering what your general reaction to this scheme might be :)
I would like to invest in some sort of
Erik Ableson wrote:
Uhhh - for an unmanaged server you can use ESXi for free. Identical
server functionality, just requires licenses if you need multiserver
features (ie vMotion)
How does ESXi w/o vMotion, vSphere, and vCenter server stack up against
VMWare Server? My impression was that you
On 8-Nov-09, at 12:20 PM, Joe Auty wrote:
Tim Cook wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c j...@netmusician.org wrote:
...
Why not just convert the VM's to run in virtualbox and run Solaris
directly on the hardware?
That's another possibility, but it depends on how Virtualbox
I'm entertaining something which might be a little wacky, I'm wondering what
your general reaction to this scheme might be :)
I would like to invest in some sort of storage appliance, and I like the idea
of something I can grow over time, something that isn't tethered to my servers
(i.e. not
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, besson3c wrote:
What if I were to run a FreeBSD VM and present it several vdisks,
format these as ZFS, and serve up ZFS shares through this VM? I
realize that I'm getting the sort of userland conveniences of ZFS
this way since the host would still be writing to an EXT3/4
My impression was that the ZFS Fuse project was no longer being maintained?
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c j...@netmusician.org wrote:
I'm entertaining something which might be a little wacky, I'm wondering
what your general reaction to this scheme might be :)
I would like to invest in some sort of storage appliance, and I like the
idea of something I can
On Nov 8, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote:
Why not just convert the VM's to run in virtualbox and run Solaris
directly on the hardware?
Or use OpenSolaris xVM (Xen) with either qemu img files on zpools for
the VMs or zvols.
-Ross
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote:
Tim Cook wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c j...@netmusician.org wrote:
I'm entertaining something which might be a little wacky, I'm wondering
what your general reaction to this scheme might be :)
I
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote:
Tim Cook wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote:
Tim Cook wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c j...@netmusician.org wrote:
I'm entertaining something which might be a
complicated conversion
of existing vms, or rebuilding. Or do the same thing with freebsd as your base
system.
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I'm
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote:
Tim Cook wrote:
It appears that one can get more in the way of features out of VMWare
Server for free than with ESX, which is seemingly a hook into buying more
VMWare stuff.
I've never looked at Sun xVM, in fact I
Uhhh - for an unmanaged server you can use ESXi for free. Identical
server functionality, just requires licenses if you need multiserver
features (ie vMotion)
Cordialement,
Erik Ableson
On 8 nov. 2009, at 19:12, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote:
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Joe Auty
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org wrote:
Erik Ableson wrote:
Uhhh - for an unmanaged server you can use ESXi for free. Identical server
functionality, just requires licenses if you need multiserver features (ie
vMotion)
How does ESXi w/o vMotion, vSphere, and
Simply put ESXi is exactly the same local feature set as ESX server.
So you get all of the useful stuff like transparent memory page
sharing (memory deduplication), virtual switches with VLAN tagging,
and high performance storage I/O. For free. As many copies as you like.
But... You will
for a case, bays and
drives. Which is what you'll spend on decent hardware raid.
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Just to clear out the vmware stuff.
ESXi + ZFS
I've run production with a thumper 4540, solaris10 (before dedup:) ,48
drives, one pool,
NFS through 1 GB to ESX(+ESXi) on dedicated NICs
ZFS snapshots always proved to be consistent data to ESX
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ESX or ESXi depends on your needs
NFS (leaves all
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