Re: [storage-discuss] Backup solution for OpenSolaris

2009-04-21 Thread Erast
Hi Philip, Evan Powell, Nexenta's CEO were recently bloging about the so called Delorean project - a Time Machine for Windows: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_mojoItemid=153p=18 He says: ‘Delorean’ is intended to allow time travel for windows users by using ZFS based

Re: [storage-discuss] Poor COMSTAR iSCSI performance

2009-08-03 Thread Erast
Could you try to set the IO scheduler to noop: echo noop /sys/block/sdX/queue/scheduler and see if that makes a difference? Thomas Georgiou wrote: I have 2 HP DL380G4s each connected directly to a FC JBOD (Powervault 224F). Each server has 2 QLA2200 HBAs so multipathing to the JBODs is in

Re: [storage-discuss] Poor COMSTAR iSCSI performance

2009-08-04 Thread Erast
I would recommend to isolate Networking first. I.e. run iperf between the boxes (Linux vs. OpenSolaris), single thread, 512 bytes payload - this will somewhat emulate iSCSI traffic over single raw device. See what you'll get... Thomas Georgiou wrote: Setting that under Linux, I get 28.6MB/s

Re: [storage-discuss] Poor COMSTAR iSCSI performance

2009-08-06 Thread Erast
Which NIC/driver you are using? Thomas Georgiou wrote: initiator(linux)-osol: 630Mbits/s initiator-linux: 520Mbits/s linux-initiator: 733Mbits/s osol-initiator: 297Mbits/s It appears that osol is having a little trouble transmitting information. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM,

Re: [storage-discuss] Poor COMSTAR iSCSI performance

2009-08-06 Thread Erast
Forget it.. you will not get good transmit results with bge driver as it is not yet supporting LSO it seems: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6341158 Try Intel 1Gbps card, e1000g driver supports LSO Thomas Georgiou wrote: All the servers used have Broadcom

Re: [storage-discuss] Poor COMSTAR iSCSI performance

2009-08-06 Thread Erast
and what is mpstat 5 is saying while you running 512b traffic? Also, do you see retransmits during the run? i.e. netstat -s|grep Retra Thomas Georgiou wrote: I installed an Intel Gigabit nic and continue to get 280Mbits/s through it (verified via iftop). However, if running iftop on e1000g0,

Re: [storage-discuss] Making zfs HA

2009-09-09 Thread Erast
Hi Roman, take a look on what NexentaStor is providing: auto-cdp - a commercial plugin which simplifies significantly ZFS/AVS management of primary/secondary hosts auto-sync - a free service which supports sophisticated ZFS send/recv over SSH, NC. Or use send snapshots over RSYNC - which

Re: [storage-discuss] Making zfs HA

2009-09-10 Thread Erast
All public plugins CDDL licensed, however they really depends on NMS and component APIs. More public plugins coming soon such us: UPS and ClamAV/ZFS - but also, this website can host projects which are related to OpenSolaris / Nexenta, such as kernel gate:

Re: [storage-discuss] Making zfs storage HA clustered

2009-09-10 Thread Erast
BTW, there are two commercial plugins for NexentaStor as well which will solve HA problem nicely in my opinion: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_jreviewstask=listcategorysection=20cat=53dir=1Itemid=112 1. Simple-Failover plugin - active / passive manual failover 2. HA Cluster

Re: [storage-discuss] Little help on COMSTAR

2009-12-23 Thread Erast
Its available actually for NexentaStor/OpenSolaris as a separate plugin. It supports remote API, FC and iSCSI targets: http://www.nexenta.com/static/target-userguide-2.1.pdf http://www.nexenta.com/corp/nexentastor-2x-optional-modules-storage-management/303-target-20 Vik wrote: In a couple of

Re: [storage-discuss] Open Source VTL

2010-02-18 Thread Erast
Guys, just to let you know that Nexenta was working for quite some time on its COMSTAR VTape driver. It is now beta ready and feature complete as far as code is concerned: http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/vtape It requires b131+ to compile and run. Tested with NexentaStor and with many

Re: [storage-discuss] curious COMSTAR iSCSI target timeout and responsiveness failures

2010-06-07 Thread Erast
On 06/07/2010 06:12 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: We've built a SAN based on NexentaStor 3.0, and have generally had a good experience with the flexibility and performance of ZFS and the relatively new COMSTAR kernel mode iSCSI story. However, we are experiencing a frustrating and thus far

Re: [storage-discuss] curious COMSTAR iSCSI target timeout and responsiveness failures

2010-06-07 Thread Erast
On 06/07/2010 10:04 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: n...@hl-san:/$ show applance version NMC version: 3.0.0-3 NMV version: 3.0.0-5 NMS version: 3.0.0-5 Operating System: Nexenta/OpenSolaris (version 3.0.0) Its older version I would say... you need to upgrade your software. Run the following NMC

Re: [storage-discuss] ATA over Ethernet

2007-01-18 Thread Erast Benson
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[storage-discuss] mpt binary crash in vmware

2007-06-01 Thread Erast Benson
is closed binary and there is no way to debug it further on my side. Is this problem known/fixed yet? Please advise. If you have new binary to verify - I'm willing to help. Thank you. -- Erast ___ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [storage-discuss] mpt binary crash in vmware

2007-06-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 18:23 +0100, Pete Dennis wrote: Hello Erast, This could well be the same as a bug that was logged: 6553970 VMware Workstation 5.5.4/6.0beta choked when booting snv_63 or s10u4_06 So you may want to talk VMware about this. I have tried b65 on build 6.0.0

Re: [storage-discuss] mpt binary crash in vmware

2007-06-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 08:39 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 18:23 +0100, Pete Dennis wrote: Hello Erast, This could well be the same as a bug that was logged: 6553970 VMware Workstation 5.5.4/6.0beta choked when booting snv_63

Re: [storage-discuss] Native cifs with Vista, *FIXED*!!!

2008-01-25 Thread Erast Benson
Thanks Alan, this been backported to Nexenta unstable repository, those who need the fix now, simply apt-get it. On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 17:07 -0800, Alan M Wright wrote: Tim Cook wrote: Allright, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed nobody thought to point this out from the cifs team.

Re: [storage-discuss] RFC for possible project -- W*nFS on ZFS?

2008-02-28 Thread Erast Benson
alternatively, NexentaStor provides ZFS-integrated indexer and probabilistic search engine with nice GUI and CLI interfaces.. On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:00 -0600, Mark Martin wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indexed attribute searching on top of ZFS

Re: [storage-discuss] Why isn't AVS more intelligent?

2008-08-08 Thread Erast Benson
If you looking for extra intelligence for SNDR, search for solutions on top of it, i.e. like NexentaStor AutoCDP plugin could be used to manage ZFS pool mirroring: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=150Itemid=112 On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 11:20 -0700, Maurice Volaski

Re: [storage-discuss] Is OpenSolaris+iSCSI right for me?

2008-09-06 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:47 +0100, saqmaster wrote: Right now i'm looking at :- - OpenFiler on generic x86 hardware and a bunch of sata disks - FreeNAS, as above Take a look on NexentaStor ZFS software appliance - this is similar to OpenFiler and FreeNAS, but really moves things to the

Re: [storage-discuss] Is OpenSolaris+iSCSI right for me?

2008-09-08 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 15:11 -0700, Sumit Gupta wrote: On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Ben Rockwood wrote: Peter Buckingham wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: The COMSTAR iSCSI Target isn't here today, and looks to be some ways off, thus its not really of concern. In a year I'd guess we'll

Re: [storage-discuss] DART vs DataonTap

2008-10-20 Thread Erast Benson
If you do ZFS snapshots of VMs, you need to quiesce VM states first. This can not be done without serious integration with ESX servers. And yes, it takes more time then just a few seconds of ZFS-end snapshot. I suggest to take a look on commercial solution from Nexenta Systems, which tightly

Re: [storage-discuss] NDMPCOPY Test Tool and NDMP Protocol Test Suite Released

2009-02-09 Thread Erast Benson
Great! uploaded to Nexenta APT now, for NCP2 users just do: # apt-get install ndmpcopy On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 17:46 -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: Vilas Deshpande, I love you!!! Thank you! I've been needing this badly! benr. ___ storage-discuss