I'll drop AoE in favor of the iSCSI to export my 20 discs from Linux Debian Lenny to OpenSolaris 2008.11. Now, I believe this setup will be more compatible with OpenSolaris OS.
Thanks! Thiago ----- "Thiago Martins" <thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br> escreveu: > Sriram, > > ----- "Sriram Narayanan" <sri...@belenix.org> escreveu: > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Thiago C. M. Cordeiro | World Web > > <thiago.mart...@worldweb.com.br> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Today I have ten computers with Xen and Linux, each with 2 discs > of > > 500G in raid1, each node sees only its own raid1 volume, I do not > have > > live motion of my virtual machines... and moving the data from one > > hypervisor to another is a pain task... > > > > > > Now that I discovered this awesome file system! I want that the > ZFS > > manages all my discs in a network environment. > > > > > > But I don't know the best way to make a pool using all my 20 > discs > > in one big pool with 10T of capacity. > > > > > > My first contact with Solaris, was with the OpenSolaris 2008.11, > as > > a virtual machine (paravirtual domU) on a Linux (Debian 5.0) dom0. I > > also have more opensolaris on real machines to make the tests... > > > > > > I'm thinking in export all my 20 discs, through the AoE protocol, > > and in my dom0 that I'm running the opensolaris domU (in HA through > > the Xen), I will make the configuration file for it (zfs01.cfg) with > > 20 block devices of 500G and inside the opensolaris domu, I will > share > > the pool via iSCSI targets and/or NFS back to the domUs of my > > cluster... Is this a good idea? > > > > I share a three disk pool over NFS for some VMWare ESXi based > > hosting. > This three discs are on the same machine or in three distinct? > I mean, your pool have three local or remote discs? > > > There is considerably high disk I/O caused by the apps that run on > > these VMs. ZFS + NFS is working fine for me. > > > > I intend to experiment with iSCSI later when I free up some machines > > for such an experiment. > > > > -- Sriram > > Thanks! > - > Thiago > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
