Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

Btw I did go ahead and test both virtio methods...I gave a vm the -device argument on one interface and the -net argument for another the results where -device = eth0 = 952mbps -net = eth1 = 199 mbps Thanks and have a great day, John Barfield On Mar 24, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Dan McDonald

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

in a zone. Not that I didnt reverse engineer some of Joyents work of course. Thanks and have a great day, John Barfield On Mar 24, 2015, at 7:40 PM, Phil Harman phil.har...@gmail.com wrote: John, Interesting work and data. Thanks for sharing. I've also been playing with Oracle Solaris

[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS on IBM DX360 UEFI Firmware

I would be very grateful if you shared your knowledge. I’ve tried disabling UEFI or enabling legacy mode but I just don’t think that its working…after scanning through IBM’s docs from what I can tell…it should just work automatically. Thanks in advance for any help! John Barfield

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS on IBM DX360 UEFI Firmware

Thanks! Ill try that tomorrow... Thanks and have a great day, John Barfield On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:40 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.commailto:c...@innovates.com wrote: Sounds like the problem I had on a new Supermicro box. I found by trial and error turning off x2apic in the bios fixed

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

zone to have full 1GB bandwidth? From: Theo Schlossnagle Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 6:56 AM To: John Barfield Cc: Phil Harman, omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.commailto:omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues +1 John

[OmniOS-discuss] Potential KVM Virtio Performance Issues

physical network with iperf…one being CentOS 6.5 and the other OmniOS build r151012 and received 1.09 Gbytes over a physical switch. Your thoughts are appreciated! John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc. Office: +1 (214) 506-8354 4925

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151012 latest 17.04.2015 updates and uname

Okay awesome! I’ve been holding back on upgrading but now I probably will. John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc. Office: +1 (214) 506-8354 4925 Greenville Ave Suite 900 Dallas, TX 75206 support.bissinc.com http://htmlsig.com

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151012 latest 17.04.2015 updates and uname

Hey Dan has the statd NFS bug been resolved in this release? https://www.illumos.org/issues/4518 If not I already built the the binary if it would be helpful to anyone. John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc. Office: +1 (214) 506-8354

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVM Performance Update

This is great news! Thank you. John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc. Office: +1 (214) 506-8354 4925 Greenville Ave Suite 900 Dallas, TX 75206 support.bissinc.com http://htmlsig.com/support.bissinc.com This e-mail message may contain

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] kvm network performance survey

other projects so just had to deal with running Ubuntu as a solution to the performance problem at the time because I had already spent 2 weeks debugging CentOS. John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc. Office: +1 (214) 506-8354 4925

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] kvm network performance survey

hosts. Here is my original thread posted about this in march: http://lists.omniti.com/pipermail/omnios-discuss/2015-March/004539.html John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc. Office: +1 (214) 506-8354 4925 Greenville Ave Suite 900 Dallas, TX

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS considered in-memory OS ?

I’ve been interested in configuring omnios to run in memory off of a ram disk myself. Does anyone know where you could find a good guide for booting Solaris(h) kernel into memory with a ramdisk? John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS considered in-memory OS ?

I’m booting off of a pair SLC USB sticks today. They’re extremely fast boot still not as fast as SmartOS running in memory. I guess I’ll do some googling to get omni running in memory :p John Barfield / Sr Principal Engineer +1 (214) 425-0783/ john.barfi...@bissinc.com BISS, Inc. Office: +1

[OmniOS-discuss] Zfs encryption

Ive done some googling around and Im not seeing much about zfs encryption support in illumos/omnios. The redmine project is there but empty. What are some of the options that others are using today? Wheres xlofi? Did Oracle take that for their zfs encryption? I was around solaris before

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] COMSTAR hanging

8E. -brian On Jan 12, 2016, at 11:19 PM, John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com<mailto:john.barfi...@bissinc.com>> wrote: BTW I left off that it has the same LSI controller chipset Sent from Outlook Mobile<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> _____ From: John Barfield

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] COMSTAR hanging

My input may or may not be valid but Im going to throw it out there anyway :) do you have any Mpt disconnect errors in /var/adm/messages? Also do you have smartmontools installed? I ran into similiar issues just booting a sunfire x4540 recently off of OmniOS live, i/o would just hang while

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] COMSTAR hanging

BTW I left off that it has the same LSI controller chipset Sent from Outlook Mobile<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> _ From: John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] COMSTAR hangi

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] boot environment mounting on /tmp/tmp.x

Well, I still cannot make a backup of my BE. For now the system works. I think I’ll just have to do a fresh install and reimport my storage pool when I really need to upgrade. On 11/29/16, 7:30 PM, "Dan McDonald" wrote: You may need to construct your menu.lst

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] boot environment mounting on /tmp/tmp.x

pkg On 11/29/16, 7:00 PM, "Dan McDonald" <dan...@omniti.com> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2016, at 7:51 PM, John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> wrote: > > Good evening, > > I’m trying to upgrade an omnios 151012 an

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] boot environment mounting on /tmp/tmp.x

603/boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 30 0 OmniOS v11 r151012 1 omniosvar 2 omnios-backup-1 On 11/29/16, 7:00 PM, "Dan McDonald" <dan...@omniti.com> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2016, at 7:51 PM, John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> wrote: > > Good

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] boot environment mounting on /tmp/tmp.x

Thanks Dan, One issue…I can’t backup my BE for a like reason. beadm create omnios-backup2 Unable to create omnios-backup2. Missing boot menu file. On 11/29/16, 7:11 PM, "Dan McDonald" <dan...@omniti.com> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2016, at 8:06 PM, John Barfield <joh

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] boot environment mounting on /tmp/tmp.x

So that’s the final caveat here lol…bootadm says that the menu file is at that path but that file structure doesn’t actually exist. Been racking my brain on this most of the afternoon. ls /tmp total 87 drwxrwxrwt 21 root sys1536 Nov 29 18:54 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 31 Nov

[OmniOS-discuss] boot environment mounting on /tmp/tmp.x

Good evening, I’m trying to upgrade an omnios 151012 and I keep getting errors from pkg src: WARNING: The boot environment being modified is not the active one. Changes made will not be reflected on the next boot. If I try to activate the “omnios” be it says: Unable to activate omnios. Missing

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] boot environment mounting on /tmp/tmp.x

Install grub did not fix the issue. Its booting up with temp BE’s everytime. This issue is really weird. I noticed that the zpool thinks that one of its disks are c6t0d0s0 but its actually using c5t0d0s0 could this be related? Thanks for your help this evening. On 11/29/16, 7:30 PM, "Dan

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] device probe related command timeouts

So odd thing about this server….there is NO “/dev/rdsk/c14t0d0s0” anywhere. I wonder what that’s all about On 1/4/17, 3:17 PM, "John Barfield" <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> wrote: You’re awesome! Its hanging on “open /dev/rdsk/c14t0d0s0” Looking at that disk now.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] New SAN deployment HBA recommendations

t;Dan McDonald" <dan...@omniti.com> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2017, at 3:02 PM, John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I’m designing a new ZFS SAN and I’m wondering if anyone knows the latest greatest supported HBA

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] New SAN deployment HBA recommendations

/17, 2:31 PM, "Dan McDonald" <dan...@omniti.com> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2017, at 3:21 PM, John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> wrote: > > I was specifically wondering what is supported in the latest OmniOS release, but I suppose youre suggesting t

[OmniOS-discuss] device probe related command timeouts

) and I can’t seem to get very to close to the source…wondering if this is related. Have a great day! John Barfield M: +1 (214) 425-0783 O: +1 (214) 506-8354 john.barfi...@bissinc.com<mailto:john.barfi...@bissinc.com> [cid:image001.png@01D26696.FD87AAE0] 4925 Greenville Ave, Ste 900 Dallas, TX

[OmniOS-discuss] New SAN deployment HBA recommendations

. Thanks for any recommendations. John Barfield M: +1 (214) 425-0783 O: +1 (214) 506-8354 john.barfi...@bissinc.com<mailto:john.barfi...@bissinc.com> [cid:image001.png@01D26693.1E73B1D0] 4925 Greenville Ave, Ste 900 Dallas, TX 75206 For Support Requests: http://support.bissinc.co

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] device probe related command timeouts

IOCGMEDIAINFO, 0x080477E0) = 0 19752/1:ioctl(11, DKIOCGMBOOT, 0x08046E70) = 0 19752/1:ioctl(11, DKIOCG_PHYGEOM, 0x080477B6) = 0 19752/1:ioctl(11, DKIOCGEXTVTOC, 0x0804749C)Err#48 ENOTSUP 19752/1:open("/dev/rdsk/c

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] device probe related command timeouts

047b50, 2, 0, 0) ff010a032ec0 pollsys+0xe7(8047b50, 2, 0, 0) ff010a032f10 _sys_sysenter_post_swapgs+0x149() > On 1/4/17, 2:52 PM, "Joshua M. Clulow" <j...@sysmgr.org> wrote: On 4 January 2017 at 12:29, John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> wrote:

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] device probe related command timeouts

You’re awesome! Its hanging on “open /dev/rdsk/c14t0d0s0” Looking at that disk now. On 1/4/17, 3:15 PM, "Joshua M. Clulow" <j...@sysmgr.org> wrote: On 4 January 2017 at 13:09, John Barfield <john.barfi...@bissinc.com> wrote: > It actually finally

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ZFS/NFS Lockup when deleting or copying large files

zilstat showed all zeros. In fact I emailed Richard Elling about it to be sure that I was using it properly. iostat, prstat, & arcstat stayed very busy the whole time though. Ill pay more attention nexttime. John Barfield On Mar 29, 2017, at 1:22 AM, Knut Erik Sørvik <k...@tekno

[OmniOS-discuss] Bug 6569 r151020

and have a great weekend! John Barfield ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

[OmniOS-discuss] DTrace Scripts

Im looking for some general dtrace scripts for debugging ZFS on OmniOS (like updated dtrace toolkit)..didnt want to reinvent the wheel if some folks are willing to share. Also willing to purchase if needed. John Barfield ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing

[OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

right? This is a sunfire x4170 m2 – All intel, cpu’s, nics, chipset,etc,etc John Barfield Engineering and Stuff M: +1 (214) 425-0783 O: +1 (214) 506-8354 john.barfi...@bissinc.com<mailto:john.barfi...@bissinc.com> [cid:image001.png@01D2974D.08ADA780] 4925 Greenville Ave, Ste 900 Dall

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

more time and get actual screenshots from the ilom. John Barfield Engineering and Stuff M: +1 (214) 425-0783 O: +1 (214) 506-8354 john.barfi...@bissinc.com 4925 Greenville Ave, Ste 900 Dallas, TX 75206 For Support Requests: http://support.bissinc.com <http://support.bissinc.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

terminal disappeared…I just saw random messages about disks infinitely oRebooted and reran installer · This time I got all the way through the installer to 99% and it crashed. A lot of python errors in the installer log. · Gave up and downloaded the r14 John Barfield Engineering

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

Yeah, I have two servers that came with those. I can’t figure out how to put them in jbod mode is the only problem. John Barfield Engineering and Stuff M: +1 (214) 425-0783 O: +1 (214) 506-8354 john.barfi...@bissinc.com 4925 Greenville Ave, Ste 900 Dallas, TX 75206 For Support

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

I caught that and pulled the SAS HBA. I’ve got another Oracle RAID controller card in now and the installer just finished. The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P Thanks for the help. I just did an old fashioned hardware RAID1 in the LSI GUI. John Barfield Engineering

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Bug 6569 r151020

Thanks for that! John Barfield Engineering and Stuff M: +1 (214) 425-0783 O: +1 (214) 506-8354 john.barfi...@bissinc.com 4925 Greenville Ave, Ste 900 Dallas, TX 75206 For Support Requests: http://support.bissinc.com <http://support.bissinc.com/> or supp...@bissinc.com Fol

[OmniOS-discuss] ZPOOL bug after upgrade to r151020

closely to see if the issues occur again. John Barfield ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss