Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios as a zfs storage server under esxi 5.1

2013-05-14 Thread C. L. Martinez
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Günther Alka a...@hfg-gmuend.de wrote: First of all, a virtualized SAN is not a problem but a good idea on a lot of use cases unless you can supply the same CPU, RAM and disk recommendations like you would do on on real hardware. It is also not a problem, that

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios as a zfs storage server under esxi 5.1

2013-05-14 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Many thanks Günther and Dan for your answers. But still I have some doubts: a) I can't assign real hardware access to this VM, but i can assign disks using RDM. b) How can I calculate how many Arc-cache do I need?? c) Is it safe to use vmxnet3 nic driver for this production environment??

[OmniOS-discuss] Omnios as a zfs storage server under esxi 5.1

2013-05-13 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, Next month, we need to deploy an omnios virtual machine to act as storage server under esxi 5.1. We can not use bare metal server, and I know that is a problem. We are thinking in disable zil. Is it recommended when omnios is installed as a vm?? And we can not use pci passthrough esxi

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios as a zfs storage server under esxi 5.1

2013-05-13 Thread Günther Alka
First of all, a virtualized SAN is not a problem but a good idea on a lot of use cases unless you can supply the same CPU, RAM and disk recommendations like you would do on on real hardware. It is also not a problem, that you cannot do vmotion with your SAN-VM (How would you vmotion your

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios as a zfs storage server under esxi 5.1

2013-05-13 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Hi all, Next month, we need to deploy an omnios virtual machine to act as storage server under esxi 5.1. We can not use bare metal server, and I know that is a problem. We are thinking in disable zil. Is it recommended when omnios is installed as a vm?? And we can not use pci passthrough