Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-29 Thread erik.ableson
Hmmm, that's odd. I have a number of VMs running on NFS (hosted on ESX, rather than Xen) with no problems at all. I did add a SLOG device to get performance up to a reasonable level, but it's been running flawlessly for a few months now. Previously I was using iSCSI for most of the connections,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-29 Thread rwalists
On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:11 PM, sol wrote: A partial workaround was to turn off access time on the share and to mount with noatime,actimeo=60 But that's not perfect because when left along the VM got into a stuck state. I've never seen that state before when the VM was hosted on a local

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-28 Thread Saxon, Will
-Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of sol Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:12 PM To: Richard Elling; Gregory Gee Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:11 PM, sol wrote: Richard Elling wrote: Gregory Gee wrote: I am using OpenSolaris to host VM images over NFS for XenServer. I'm looking for tips on what parameters can be set to help optimize my ZFS pool that holds my VM images. There is nothing special about

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 19, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Gregory Gee wrote: I am using OpenSolaris to host VM images over NFS for XenServer. I'm looking for tips on what parameters can be set to help optimize my ZFS pool that holds my VM images. I am using XenServer which is running the VMs from an NFS storage on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-20 Thread Gregory Gee
To further this question, I have been searching for a while and can't find any reference to the difference and benefits between zfs sharenfs and nfs share. Currently I am using standard NFS I believe. share -F nfs -o anon=0,sec=sys,rw=xenserver0:xenserver1 /files/VM ad...@nas:/files$ zfs list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 20, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Gee wrote: To further this question, I have been searching for a while and can't find any reference to the difference and benefits between zfs sharenfs and nfs share. Currently I am using standard NFS I believe. share -F nfs -o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Tips for ZFS tuning for NFS store of VM images

2010-07-20 Thread Gregory Gee
Thanks. I guess I am in a 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it' for my NFS setup. Thanks, Greg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss