Re: [OmniOS-discuss] considering an SSD pool ... which SSD

2015-12-09 Thread Nate Smith
I love the Intel 730s nice mix of price/server level reliability. -- Nate Smith Sr. Network /Systems Analyst Carey Color Inc. 6835 Ridge Rd./PO Box 609 Sharon Center, OH 44274 330-239-1835 -Original Message- From: Dan McDonald [dan...@omniti.com] Received: Wednesday, 09 Dec 2015

[OmniOS-discuss] pkg update failed due to full root system (which isn't full)

2015-07-09 Thread Nate Smith
So I went to run a yum update.. Last login: Tue Jun 30 14:01:50 2015 from 10.1.0.10 OmniOS 5.11 omnios-10b9c79 September 2014 root@host:/root# pkg update Packages to update: 307 Create boot environment: Yes Create backup boot environment: No pkg: Insufficent disk space

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Proliant gen9

2015-05-26 Thread Nate Smith
with a storage controller listed in the HCL http://illumos.org/hcl Hope this helps. -Nate From: Josh Barton [mailto:josh.bar...@usurf.usu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 1:11 PM To: Nate Smith Subject: RE: [OmniOS-discuss] Proliant gen9 All I can find for the Storage controller is: HP Smart

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Proliant gen9

2015-05-22 Thread Nate Smith
What is the on board storage controller? That's probably the unsupported hardware. -Nate -Original Message- From: Josh Barton [josh.bar...@usurf.usu.edu] Received: Friday, 22 May 2015, 7:10PM To: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com [omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com] Subject:

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] High density 2.5 chassis

2015-05-13 Thread Nate Smith
I’ve been running an all-ssd setup on a Dell R720, with dual 9207-8i cards connected to dual 8x2.5 disk backplane. (9207-8i is one of the only cards that doesn’t interfere with the BIOS, as dell Implemented it for Tape Drive Support). Boot disks are hooked up internally connected to the onboard

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] COMSTAR vid and pid

2015-04-27 Thread Nate Smith
What is a vid. Can you give command/return examples? Where are you getting stuck on the multipath, in the MPIOCPL, or the multipath properties? From: OmniOS-discuss [mailto:omnios-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Kyle Bruene Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 12:38 PM To:

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V

2015-04-06 Thread Nate Smith
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V

2015-04-06 Thread Nate Smith
Update: I disabled cstates and mwaits and that fixed the crashes i was getting when,the system was slow. But I still got the qlogic target dropouts during certain ios.after lots of research, I guessed that I was having a queuing problem. To alleviate that I did a couple things: 1.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Fwd: All SSD pool advice

2015-04-04 Thread Nate Smith
You also have to consider your use cases: High read low write environments, versus mixed loads, versus high write environments. SSD vendors are designing enterprise drives with those use cases in mind. High read environments will not have nearly the write endurance. (Intel S3500s seem designed

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V

2015-04-03 Thread Nate Smith
with the Queue Depth like you mentioned, Thomas. From: T. Wiese, OVIS IT Consulting GmbH [mailto:thomas.wi...@ovis-consulting.de] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 3:44 PM To: Nate Smith Cc: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V You

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V

2015-04-02 Thread Nate Smith
I´m running maybe 7 active VMs on two servers across two different luns/pools (basically have a Fast storage Pool and a Slower storage Pool). From: T. Wiese, OVIS IT Consulting GmbH [mailto:thomas.wi...@ovis-consulting.de] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 3:14 PM To: Nate Smith Cc: omnios

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V

2015-04-02 Thread Nate Smith
). I figured out the SR/IOV stuff, but what were you talking about when you mentioned turning of PCI Express Speed in bios? From: T. Wiese, OVIS IT Consulting GmbH [mailto:thomas.wi...@ovis-consulting.de] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 3:44 PM To: Nate Smith Cc: omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V

2015-04-02 Thread Nate Smith
PM To: Nate Smith Cc: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V Which server system do you use for storage? HP, DELL, Supermicro? Turn off sr-iov thats make many problems and try to turn off auto detection für pci-express speed. And don

[OmniOS-discuss] Best infrastructure for VSphere/Hyper-V

2015-04-02 Thread Nate Smith
So going over the forum over the last month, it appears more than a couple people have had problem with Omnios as a storage backend for virtualization platforms, both as iSCSI targets and as Fibre Channel targets. Looking at a list of possible alternatives, what infrastructure works well? Is

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kernel panic kernel heap corruption detected when creating zero eager disks

2015-03-25 Thread Nate Smith
Can confirm that there are problems with Comstar, especially with Fibre/STMF. Are people seeing problems with iSCSI or does that seem more stable? -Original Message- From: OmniOS-discuss [mailto:omnios-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Dan McDonald Sent: Tuesday, March 24,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks?

2015-03-06 Thread Nate Smith
Yeah, there is on R720s, I think. What about on the Supermicro and HP servers? From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@richardelling.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 11:39 AM To: Nate Smith Cc: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks?

2015-03-05 Thread Nate Smith
] On Behalf Of Nate Smith Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 11:16 AM To: 'Rune Tipsmark'; omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks? Dell R720. Had it happen with an intel system too. From: Rune Tipsmark [mailto:r...@steait.net] Sent: Thursday, March

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks?

2015-03-05 Thread Nate Smith
Dell R720. Had it happen with an intel system too. From: Rune Tipsmark [mailto:r...@steait.net] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 11:14 AM To: 'Nate Smith'; omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: RE: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks? Haven’t tried iSCSI but had similar

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks?

2015-03-05 Thread Nate Smith
my HBAs were always on separate PCI busses and running at 8x on both systems I used. 0Nate -Original Message- From: Johan Kragsterman [mailto:johan.kragster...@capvert.se] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 12:00 PM To: Rune Tipsmark Cc: 'Nate Smith'; omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks?

2015-03-05 Thread Nate Smith
Do you see the same problem with Windows and iSCSI as an initiator? I wish there was a way to turn up debugging to figure this out. From: Rune Tipsmark [mailto:r...@steait.net] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 11:08 AM To: 'Nate Smith'; omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: RE: [OmniOS

[OmniOS-discuss] QLE2652 I/O Disconnect. Heat Sinks?

2015-03-05 Thread Nate Smith
I’ve had this problem for a while, and I have no way to diagnose what is going on, but occasionally when system IO gets high (I’ve seen it happen especially on backups), I will lose connectivity with my Fibre Channel cards which serve up fibre channel LUNS to a VM cluster. All hell breaks

[OmniOS-discuss] QLT Logging

2014-10-16 Thread Nate Smith
in advance. -Nate Smith Oct 15 22:08:47 newstorm fct: [ID 132490 kern.notice] NOTICE: qlt3,0 LINK UP, portid 1, topology Fabric Pt-to-Pt,speed 8G Oct 15 22:08:49 newstorm fct: [ID 132490 kern.notice] NOTICE: qlt0,0 LINK UP, portid 20100, topology Fabric Pt-to-Pt,speed 8G Oct 15 22:08:50

[OmniOS-discuss] SATA SSD vs. SAS

2014-09-29 Thread Nate Smith
? I read this report, and it sounded promising till I got to the end. http://xnat.org/blog/xnat-hardware/rsf-1-high-availablity-ssd-pool-for-vm-storage-and-build-space/ Thanks in advance, -- Nate Smith ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] SATA SSD vs. SAS

2014-09-29 Thread Nate Smith
to get another chassis like the one you describe. -Original Message- From: Fábio Rabelo [mailto:fa...@fabiorabelo.wiki.br] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 4:25 PM To: Nate Smith; omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] SATA SSD vs. SAS Hi to all ... I live in Brazil

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Status of TRIM support?

2014-05-28 Thread Nate Smith
The nice thing about the pros is they do have power loss protection. _ From: Ian Collins [mailto:i...@ianshome.com] To: Nate Smith [mailto:nsm...@careyweb.com] Cc: 'omnios-discuss' [mailto:omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com] Sent: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:51:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss

[OmniOS-discuss] RAID/SAS Controller Recommendations

2013-10-14 Thread Nate Smith
I'm looking to install a new Omnios server on a Dell T710 server with an HP MDS 600 RAID Cabinet. I currently run a similar setup with OpenIndiana and an MDS600. On this machine, I use LSI-9285-8e controllers, which are the LSISAS2208 Chipset. All targets are set to JBOD pass/thru mode.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OWC Mercury Accelsior

2013-06-07 Thread Nate Smith
Really enjoying the Intel S3700 series. It seems to be the best mix of enterprise stability (built in capacitors), write endurance, speed, and price. Working well as a zil. -Original Message- From: omnios-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com

[OmniOS-discuss] Newbie Help. Where's my network interface?

2013-05-01 Thread Nate Smith
I just did a new install of OmniOS off the OmniOS_Text_r151004n.iso I have been using systems and hardware that worked with openindiana, but my network interface is nowhere to be found. I am using an intel Pro 1000P pci-e card on an Dell Poweredge 610. I It is listed as Intel Corporation