Re: [OmniOS-discuss] preconfigured ZFS/OmniOS All-IN-ONE appliance for ESXi 5.5

2013-10-02 Thread Guenther Alka
Update: I have stability problems when using e1000 on a default OmniOS VM under ESXi 5.5 It works either when using the VMXnet3 vnic or when adding the following lines to /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf (reboot required) #tcp offload disable tx_hcksum_enable=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0;

[OmniOS-discuss] AMPO webserver stack (Apache, mySQL, PHPmyadmin, PHP, Owncloud)

2013-10-07 Thread Guenther Alka
info: I try to support the ampo community add-on for OmniOS/ napp-it (free at home and commercially) it includes: * Apache 2.4.6, * MySQL 5.6.12, * PHPMyadmin, * PHP 5.4.19 * OwnCloud 5.0.10 You can install the whole ampo stack with one command (without napp-it you may get some

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] napp-it OmniOS appliance boots very slow, used to work on OpenIndiana

2013-10-14 Thread Guenther Alka
hi Eugen First, check napp-it menu Disks Details prtconf diskinfos (for driver info of affected disks, probably mpt_sas/ sd) then goto Disks Details edit mpt sas conf disable

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CIFS with OmniOS

2014-05-08 Thread Guenther Alka
You can either - use the Oracle docs from old Solaris Express 11 (fully compatible settings to OmniOS) if you google you may find them like http://archive.today/snZaS - use my napp-it where you can do settings via Web-UI Gea Am 08.05.2014 04:12, schrieb Doug Hughes: Any documentation on

[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151010 improvements

2014-05-09 Thread Guenther Alka
Release 151010is out http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/ReleaseNotes#ReleaseNotes states: * ZFS performance and reliability improvements, especially with hole-y ZFS sends and receives. * ZFS bookmarks for easier sending and receiving of ZFS filesystems. * ZFS CLI improvements * NFS

[OmniOS-discuss] Netatalk Problems on OmniOS

2014-06-04 Thread Guenther Alka
hello I tried to setup netatalk (tried 3.1.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1.2) on current OmniOS stable but failed. I have tried to compile manually and setup with the IPS repo from mawi.uni-ulm. With Netatalk from mawi I got errors about missing shares. With a manually compiled netatalk I got server

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

2014-06-04 Thread Guenther Alka
Am 02.06.2014 09:38, schrieb Jim Klimov: Hello friends, and sorry for cross-posting to different audiences like this, .. The box should be a reliable rackable server with remote management, substantial ECC RAM for efficient ZFS and VM needs (128-256gb likely, possibly more), CPUs with all

[OmniOS-discuss] Openssl patch 1.01h (5 Jun 2014) breaks TLS mail

2014-06-09 Thread Guenther Alka
about: sending encrypted statusmails via TLS (Googlemail) I use OmniOS + net-ssleay + Perl module Tls.pm to send encrypted mails over Googlemail and orthers from napp-it (or from a a console script) Up to last week this was done by a pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-perl/

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Openssl patch 1.01h (5 Jun 2014) breaks TLS mail

2014-06-10 Thread Guenther Alka
install Net::SMTP::TLS exit; Am 10.06.2014 01:27, schrieb Günther Alka: more about: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1573272page=304 last threads Am 09.06.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Guenther Alka a...@hfg-gmuend.de: about: sending encrypted statusmails via TLS (Googlemail) I use OmniOS + net

[OmniOS-discuss] Open-VM-Tools in 151014

2015-03-26 Thread Guenther Alka
I have updated 151012 to 151014 and installed the open-vm-tools (on ESXi 6.0.) for some basic tests. Installation via pkg install open-vm-tools was ok and ESXi 6.0 shows tools running (3rd party tools) but vmxnet3 is missing. Is vmxnet3 not a part of the open-vm-tools? Gea

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] User/group with CIFS

2015-08-02 Thread Guenther Alka
Netatalk and Solaris CIFS are incompatible regarding permissions in an AD environment or regarding groups. One problem hides in the + of -rwx--+ 1 olaf olaf 469 Aug 2 17:12 scaletta2.txt This means that there are ACLs defined. While netatalk uses classic Unix permissions

[OmniOS-discuss] SMB 2.1 any many other improvements

2015-11-06 Thread Guenther Alka
Just saw the notice at Illumos IRC Long awaited (Gordon Ross from Nexenta, gratulation, among others) SMB 2.1 is there - my Mac users will be happy https://www.illumos.org/issues/6399 https://www.illumos.org/issues/6398 https://www.illumos.org/issues/6352 https://www.illumos.org/issues/6400

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151014 users - beware of illumos 6214 - steps to check and repair...

2015-09-14 Thread Guenther Alka
What is the recommended action on OmniOS 151014 about the L2Arc Problem 1. what is the recommended way to detect possible problems a. run scrub? seems useless b. run zdb pool and check for what You said: Look for assertion failures, or other non-0 exits. Is this the key for a corrupt

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] iSCSI poor write performance

2015-09-23 Thread Guenther Alka
Poor write performance is often related to sync write. Enable write back cache for your logical units (and disable ZFS sync property on the filesystem for filebased lu's) and redo some performance tests. Gea Am 23.09.2015 um 10:51 schrieb Martin Truhlář: Tests revealed, that problem is

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

2015-12-09 Thread Guenther Alka
I use several SSD pools for years. As there is no trim support I check for - high quality controller for controller internal garbage collection - large overprovisioning. Enterprise SSDs offer 40% or more - quality flash with a high write endurance - powerloss protection, optionally you can use a

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Bloody update for December 11th

2015-12-13 Thread Guenther Alka
OmniOS is my preferred platform. I will add SMB2 results with the same config to the pdf this week Am 12.12.2015 um 22:07 schrieb Bob Friesenhahn: On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Günther Alka wrote: Many Thanks to Nexenta and to OmniTi for this december bloody with SMB 2 I have just done some tests on

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Bloody update for December 11th

2015-12-15 Thread Guenther Alka
p-it.org/doc/downloads/performance_smb2.pdf I was surprised to see the huge improvement with jumbo frames. Bob -- H f G Hochschule für Gestaltung university of design Schwäbisch Gmünd Rektor-Klaus Str. 100 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd Guenther Alka, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Leiter des Rechenzentrums head o

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] fan control

2016-05-25 Thread Guenther Alka
Napp-it is basically a pure CGI application that creates load only on menu actions when it calls the needed console system commands. Additionally it can reread system informations in the backgroud (acceleration) or create realtime graphs and status informations with websockets (monitoring).

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS & Softlayer

2016-06-17 Thread Guenther Alka
are the good news in the setup. -Paul On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:34:56 +0200 Guenther Alka <a...@hfg-gmuend.de> wrote: The LSI megaRAID 9361 is a hardware raid controller - the wrong type for ZFS. You want a HBA controller best with a raidless IT firmware with an LSI 2008 or 3008 chipset like the LS

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS & Softlayer

2016-06-16 Thread Guenther Alka
The LSI megaRAID 9361 is a hardware raid controller - the wrong type for ZFS. You want a HBA controller best with a raidless IT firmware with an LSI 2008 or 3008 chipset like the LSI 9207 or 9003 or Sata in AHCI mode. Your options: - replace the 9361 with an HBA or - use it as a bootdevice

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Slow CIFS Writes when using Moca 2.0 Adapter

2016-01-29 Thread Guenther Alka
_ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss -- H f G Hochschule für Gestaltung university of design Schwäbisch Gmünd Rektor-Klaus Str. 100 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd Guenther Alka, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Le

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] RSF-1/ZFS panics node when offlining one iSCSI storage mirror

2016-03-14 Thread Guenther Alka
scuss -- H f G Hochschule für Gestaltung university of design Schwäbisch Gmünd Rektor-Klaus Str. 100 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd Guenther Alka, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Leiter des Rechenzentrums head of computer center Tel 07171 602 627 Fax 07171 69259 guenther.a...@hfg-gmuend.de http://rz.h

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Optimal Server Configuration or Disk Controller Recommendations

2016-04-10 Thread Guenther Alka
. In such a situation I would prefer more cores over a higher frequency for a similar price. Am 10.04.2016 um 12:23 schrieb Michael Rasmussen: On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:05:47 +0200 Guenther Alka <a...@hfg-gmuend.de> wrote: Use any Xeons, prefer frequency over number of cores. Is that a g

[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151016/ 151017 not listed in network environment

2016-03-31 Thread Guenther Alka
We have an AD environment where the AD server is the master browser to list all servers and workstations on our Windows machines under network This works for a couple of OmniOS 151014 servers but not for my 151016/ 151017 testservers. Is this a known problem or is there something that I should

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151016/ 151017 not listed in network environment

2016-03-31 Thread Guenther Alka
t provides this feature. This worked together with my 151014 boxes that are listed in network neighborhood see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36832/winclientcannotcontactbynetbios.html thanks Gea Am 31.03.2016 um 19:02 schrieb Dan McDonald: On Mar 31, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Guenther Alka

[OmniOS-discuss] Want Intel 40GbE NIC driver for Illumos

2016-05-12 Thread Guenther Alka
hi I saw this discussion at the illumos-dev list I am very interested in the new drivers for Intel X550 and XL710. I have a switch (HP 5900) with QSFP+ and have ordered some XL710-QDA1 adapters for some testings. Any Eta for these drivers in Illumos/ OmniOS beta? Gea Am 12.05.2016 um

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS 151016/ 151017 not listed in network environment

2016-04-16 Thread Guenther Alka
update OmniOS is listed on a Windows machine (tried in 151018) when you set the smbshare propertynetbios_enable=true Could this be re-enabled as default as this is an expected behaviour? thanks Gea Am 31.03.2016 um 20:30 schrieb Guenther Alka: Hallo Dan This is not related to Windows AD

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS r151014 installation issue from USB stick

2016-08-03 Thread Guenther Alka
I was able to install OmniOS on the new SM X11 boards when - using a CD with the .iso with an Sata CD drive bios settings - Advanced > Boot: Install Windows 7 USB support: enabled - Boot > Boot mode: Legacy or you need a pci-e USB 2 card Gea Am 03.08.2016 um 23:00 schrieb Krzysztof Grzempa:

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS on H110

2017-02-22 Thread Guenther Alka
A good ITX choice for a ZFS NAS with ECC RAM may be from Asrock http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D2I#Specifications or something from SuperMicro ex wih 10G https://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X10SDV-4C-TLN2F.cfm btw Have you tried booting from

[OmniOS-discuss] Z-RAID SSF, Raid over Z-Pools with Storage and Service Failover

2016-08-21 Thread Guenther Alka
I am currently working on "Z-RAID" with Storage and Service Failover: "Z-RAID" is my name for a ZFS software raid but not over disks but over ZFS pools on a network. "SSF" is Storage and NFS/SMB Service Failover in a as fast and as simple method as possible. It should cover a complete server

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] stmfadm add-hg-member -F -g cluster1 wwn.2100001B321EDFB9

2016-09-03 Thread Guenther Alka
You can control access and visibility of LUNs either based on Initiators (host groups), targets (target groups), network links (target portal groups) or views that make a logical unit visible in a target. Every solution works with a different use case idea. In napp-it I am currently working

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Network throughout 1GB/sec

2016-09-16 Thread Guenther Alka
I have made some investigations into 10G and found that 300-400MB/s is expected with default settings. Improvements are possible up to 1000MB/s via mtu 9000 and if you increase ip buffers ex max_buf=4097152 tcp send_buf=2048576 tcp recv_buf=2048576 tcp, NFS lockd servers (ex 1024), NFS number

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Network throughout 1GB/sec

2016-09-17 Thread Guenther Alka
be as fast from/to OSX orWindows or with cp over netcat. Gea Am 17.09.2016 um 02:57 schrieb Ergi Thanasko: HI Gea, Great info, are you seeing 1000MB/s doing iperf or actually transfer rates rsync, cp bbcp…. On Sep 16, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Guenther Alka <a...@hfg-gmuend.de> wrote:

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Changing motherboard

2016-09-29 Thread Guenther Alka
I have not tried IB - If they change link name/numbering then yes Am 28.09.2016 um 19:15 schrieb Michael Rasmussen: On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:29:12 +0200 Guenther Alka <a...@hfg-gmuend.de> wrote: - export the datapool - delete all nic interfaces Do you think deleting nics also in

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Changing motherboard

2016-09-28 Thread Guenther Alka
I would probably - export the datapool - delete all nic interfaces then try to reboot from the disk on the new system - create new nic interfaces and ip adresses - import the datapool Gea Am 28.09.2016 um 09:42 schrieb Michael Rasmussen: Hi all, In the coming days I am going to change

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LX zones and a small Howto

2016-10-21 Thread Guenther Alka
I have added a menu in napp-it to select, download and preconfigure LX images from Joyent beside the menu to configure/ attach/ start/ stop/ detach/ delete http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/zones.pdf Whats not yet clear to me is the way to configure lx zones with zoneadm/zonecfg according

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Fwd: NVMe in ESXi-Passthrough crashes

2017-01-03 Thread Guenther Alka
mniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss -- H f G Hochschule für Gestaltung university of design Schwäbisch Gmünd Rektor-Klaus Str. 100 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd Guenther Alka, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Leiter des Rechenzentrums head of computer center

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LX Program Issue

2017-01-10 Thread Guenther Alka
When you create a filesystem in napp-it it is writeable for everyone as this is what you mayexpect in an SMB filer use (be Windows alike) LX zone folder require a 700 permission. I have updated current napp-it 17.01 to restrict permissions automatically when you create a zone in napp-it. You

[OmniOS-discuss] Setup problems with newest OmniOS 151021 on ESXi 6.5

2017-04-14 Thread Guenther Alka
I found a strange behaviour with the newest 151021 when I tried to setup on ESXi 6.5 I created a new VM (Solaris 11-64) with a DVD device connected to the OS .iso. On first boot of the VM, the ESXi web console crashed completely with a required reload. After reload, the VM console shows a

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Questions about - End the uncertainty -

2017-07-07 Thread Guenther Alka
hello Dan Thanks for jumping in. You are the person with the very best insights in OmniOSand Illumos and propably OI. Can you please comment about the options to cooperate with OI. Is this doable and wishable from your point of viewand how or do you have an alternative idea for a positive

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Questions about - End the uncertainty -

2017-07-07 Thread Guenther Alka
Hello Jim and @all I am using OmniOS and OI for years and I fully agree with you. Your position and that of Aurélian and Tobi are not identical but not too far away and may be the base to find a solution for a win-win situation for all that suits the needs and wants of all. In the current

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] CIFS access to a folder with traditional (owner:group:other) Unix permissions

2017-06-28 Thread Guenther Alka
It's really a pity that it only works If I do touch the ZFS ACLs. :( Not at all. I made several approaches years ago to replace our Windows filers with Unix/Linux systems and failed always because permission wise it was impossible to create permissions comparable to what is possible with

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Bug ?

2017-06-29 Thread Guenther Alka
Unless there are news regarding OmniOS my stance is - OmniOS 151022 is a freeze of current Illumos + LX. At the moment it is the most stable and feature rich free Illumos general use server distribution with the addition LX zones. As there is no repo and development outside OmniTi it is

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Questions about - End the uncertainty -

2017-07-05 Thread Guenther Alka
hello Tobi and Andy the first good news for 10 Weeks! cheers Gea Am 05.07.2017 um 16:30 schrieb Tobias Oetiker: Gea, the king is dead, long live the king https://gitter.im/omniosorg/Lobby www.omniosce.org the story continues ... cheers tobi - On Jul 5, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Guenther

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Requesting System Maintenance Mode at Installation

2017-04-26 Thread Guenther Alka
propably an USB3 problem (not supported on current stable). - check if your USB stick is inserted in an USB2 port On some motherboards with special USB chipsets you must use an Sata DVD for setup. Another option is OmniOS 151021 or the next 151022 expected next days Gea Am 26.04.2017 um

[OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS, OI and SmartOS community

2017-05-15 Thread Guenther Alka
*Its time to consider pla**n**B/C ??* to: omnios-discuss, openindiana-discuss, smartos-discuss The announcement of OmniTi to cancel OmniOS from now to then is a real disaster not only for OmniOS users but for the whole Illumos platform. Many users who want a free Solaris based OS especially in

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Loosing NFS shares

2017-06-23 Thread Guenther Alka
With ESXi 6.0 I have had NFS problems as well. You should use at least 6.0U2(or 6.5.0d with the 6.5 line) Another problem may be timeouts. ZFS will wait longer for a disk than ESXi for NFS. What you can do is reducing disk timeout time in /etc/system with set sd:sd_io_time=0xF (=15s, default

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Why does samba use file permissions instead share permission?

2017-05-02 Thread Guenther Alka
Are you really using SAMBA? SAMBA is available on Solarish but the default SMB server on Solarish is the kernelbased and in ZFS embedded SMB server that comes with full AD/nfs4 ACL support, ZFS snaps as Windows previous versions and Windows ntfs compatible file-based and share-based

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Investing into the Future of OmniOS Community Edition

2017-11-28 Thread Guenther Alka
: "Guenther Alka" <a...@hfg-gmuend.de> An: "omnios-discuss" <omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com> Gesendet: Montag, 27. November 2017 10:15:47 Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Investing into the Future of OmniOS Community Edition hello Tobias A pure do

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Investing into the Future of OmniOS Community Edition

2017-11-27 Thread Guenther Alka
. 100 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd Guenther Alka, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Leiter des Rechenzentrums head of computer center Tel 07171 602 627 Fax 07171 69259 guenther.a...@hfg-gmuend.de http://rz.hfg-gmuend.de ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Supermicro X10DRi-T4+ usable with Illumos?

2017-11-09 Thread Guenther Alka
I have not tried thisvery special board but would expect X540: supported 6 x Sata by Intel PCH: supported 4 x Sata by SCU: *not supported* Gea @napp-it.org Am 09.11.2017 um 08:40 schrieb qutic development: Hi, Is anyone using the Supermicro X10DRi-T4+ with the onboard sata for zfs with

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zfs send | recv

2018-06-11 Thread Guenther Alka
did you replicate recursively? keeping a different snap history should be possible when you send single filesystems. gea @napp-it.org Am 11.06.2018 um 09:11 schrieb Oliver Weinmann: Hi, We are replicating snapshots from a Nexenta system to an OmniOS system. Nexenta calls this feature

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zfs send | recv

2018-06-11 Thread Guenther Alka
ergericht: Darmstadt, HRB 89231; Managing Director/Geschäftsführer: Sigmar Keller *From:*OmniOS-discuss *On Behalf Of *Guenther Alka *Sent:* Montag, 11. Juni 2018 09:55 *To:* omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com *Subject:* Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zfs send | recv did you replicate recursively

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Restrucuring ZPool required?

2018-06-18 Thread Guenther Alka
An Slog (you wrote ZIL but you meant Slog as ZIL is onpool logging while Slog is logging on a dedicated device) is not a write cache. It's a logging feature when sync write is enabled and only read after a crash on next bootup. CIFS does not use sync per default and for NFS (that wants sync

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ZFS Dedup

2018-05-03 Thread Guenther Alka
I have not seen yet how much better dedup2 in Solaris is, but the current Open-ZFS implementation has the following problems - You must keep the dedup table in any case in RAM as this is realtime dedup otherwise a pool import or snapshot delete can last ages and performance can become unusable

[OmniOS-discuss] How to create an installer/ bootable recovery iso from a running system?

2018-07-27 Thread Guenther Alka
Question: Is it possible to create a bootable iso installer from a configured and at best online from a running system (that works then like the regular OS iso installer)? Intention is to reinstall the fully configued Oi/OmniOS from this iso for disaster recovery with the help of the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Support for AD join when SMBv1 is disabled?

2018-10-11 Thread Guenther Alka
You should add this to https://www.illumos.org/issues/9735 as this can be fixed at Illumos only. Am 11.10.2018 um 20:55 schrieb Omen Wild: Our AD forest admins just disabled SMBv1 support this morning and our AD joined OmniOSce boxes (freshly upgraded to r151026w) can no longer talk to the