Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
What do you mean that SFTP only works for single files ?

What SFTP client are you using because the default CLI client on Solaris and
anything else that uses OpenSSH or a derivative of it can grab multiple files
in several ways eg:

$ sftp remotehost:data/*

or using a batch file:
$ cat > batch 

Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
What do you mean that SFTP only works for single files ?

What SFTP client are you using because the default CLI client on Solaris and
anything else that uses OpenSSH or a derivative of it can grab multiple files
in several ways eg:

$ sftp remotehost:data/*

or using a batch file:
$ cat > batch 

Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-04 Thread Iain Sear
The above data was for a small 1.8GByte test file system becuase copying all 
20GB and 500,000 files wasnt practicle for the test.
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-04 Thread Iain Sear
We found the peak performance with running several seprate threads. Our code 
set breaks down nicely into 5 separate sections...
Time TakenFilesystem Mount OptionsRAID Sync Write Bias 
Comments
0:26:20   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:23:25   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:21:15   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:21:26   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:19:20   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:20:39   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:19:58   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:18:53   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:20:51   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityLatency
0:11:52   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Mirrored Latency
0:11:50   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Mirrored Latency
0:12:00   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Mirrored Latency
0:11:30   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Mirrored Latency
0:10:03   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Triple Mirrored  Latency
0:00:00   rw,bg,noac,noxattr,vers=3   Double ParityLatencyVery 
Slow - 15M in 10 Minutes - stopped test
0:19:16   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Double ParityThroughput
0:07:30   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Mirrored Latency
multi-threaded - 4 threads
0:07:12   rw,bg,noxattr,vers=3Mirrored Latency
multi-threaded - 8 threads


And for comparison running on the same nas using iSCSI (we need NFS becusase 
the file system is shared)...
0:04:23   iSCSI   Double ParityLatencywrite 
cache enabled
0:04:15   iSCSI   Double ParityLatencywrite 
cache disabled
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-04 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:34, Iain Sear  wrote:
> We have raised a Sun support call and have esculated this with our Sun 
> account manager. Unfortunately we have been informed that the 1.5MBytes a 
> second performance we are getting on this profile of files ie. 20GB of very 
> small files, about 500,000 is as per Sun's expectations.
>
> 3 hours is our current copy time for 20GBytes of 500,000 files. We have to do 
> this twice for each clone.

Have you tried to run two copy runs in paralel?
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-04 Thread Iain Sear
We have raised a Sun support call and have esculated this with our Sun account 
manager. Unfortunately we have been informed that the 1.5MBytes a second 
performance we are getting on this profile of files ie. 20GB of very small 
files, about 500,000 is as per Sun's expectations.

3 hours is our current copy time for 20GBytes of 500,000 files. We have to do 
this twice for each clone.

What we really want is a front end interface for SCP or RSYNC or a way to use 
SFTP/NFS to get lots off small files off the server quickly. e.g. a tar -> pipe 
or temp file -> SFTP/NFS.

Is there likely to be a way to get files from the NAS without going via 
NFS/NDMP and hence the heavy overhead in IOPs which throttle the performance 
for small files?

Other than the performance the NAS is great! Really easy to use and good value.
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-04 Thread James C. McPherson

On  4/08/10 09:24 PM, Iain Sear wrote:

Hello,

We would like more access to the back end of the NAS as well. We bought
2 7110s on the basis of thier performance was very poor only to find as
soon as you attempt lots of small file actions e.g. we need to copy a
Oracle eBusiness suite code set of 500,000 very small files very
quickly.

Copyng large files resulted in excellent performance but lots of small
files resulted in very poor performance. Our Sun client manager
investigated but believes the performance we were getting was actually
slightly better than on his interal test systems. Large files =>  1Gb
per sec ish Small files =>  1.5Mb per sec ish.

We tested lots of different NFS mount options and different NAS raid
configurations but performance as always bad. Doing the same copy on a
SAN took a few minutes.

We therefore need a way to bypass the NFS protocol for this copy, NDMP
was just as slow in tests, SFTP only works for single files.

This leaves us with the option of Telnet + SSL with the mget command
but we havent been able to get this to work so far.

Will this NAS ever support scp or rsync? This would solve our problems,
or access to the shell without invalidating our warrenty so we could
create an OS level pipe and get a single file using sftp would also
work.

As it is we are wishing we have bought a T5220 and put disks in it so
we would have had the option for fast local access for backup and
cloning.



Iain, you bought an appliance. That means you only
get to see the front of it, not the back.

If you have issues with the performance then you should
log a support call to get these issues resolved.


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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2010-08-04 Thread Iain Sear
Hello,

We would like more access to the back end of the NAS as well. We bought 2 7110s 
on the basis of thier performance was very poor only to find as soon as you 
attempt lots of small file actions e.g. we need to copy a Oracle eBusiness 
suite code set of 500,000 very small files very quickly.

Copyng large files resulted in excellent performance but lots of small files 
resulted in very poor performance. Our Sun client manager investigated but 
believes the performance we were getting was actually slightly better than on 
his interal test systems.
Large files => 1Gb per sec ish
Small files => 1.5Mb per sec ish.

We tested lots of different NFS mount options and different NAS raid 
configurations but performance as always bad. Doing the same copy on a SAN took 
a few minutes.

We therefore need a way to bypass the NFS protocol for this copy, NDMP was just 
as slow in tests, SFTP only works for single files.

This leaves us with the option of Telnet + SSL with the mget command but we 
havent been able to get this to work so far.

Will this NAS ever support scp or rsync? This would solve our problems, or 
access to the shell without invalidating our warrenty so we could create an OS 
level pipe and get a single file using sftp would also work.

As it is we are wishing we have bought a T5220 and put disks in it so we would 
have had the option for fast local access for backup and cloning.
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-10 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:50:00AM +0100, Maciej Browarski wrote:
> OK, his is BUI,so how simple I can restart it ?
> When creating pool I don't know when will be done and I can't abort this 
> operation.

There's nothing much else to do while creating the pool.  As for
restarting it BUI, just reload the initial page -- just like any BUI.

> I know that manage ZFS from one pool is simpler, but when customer using 
> 7000 for two or many department, and each department buy own disks,so 
> there also need to own administration. But seeing other posting I 
> waiting to mid 2009 for this functionality.

That's what quotas and reservations are for.  You shouldn't sell disks
to your departments, you should sell storage services.

> Do you know that, that administrator are lazy to learn new language scripts?

JavaScript is everywhere now.

> Have we synchronize replication ? NetAPP win in this very important 
> point. But we can use AVS. But how this implement in OpenStorage ?

Replication is asynchronous.  For synchronous redundancy use mirroring
(or RAID-Z2, ...) in a cluster.

> >It's not for "newbies."  It's for enterprise customers (who,
> >incidentally, can afford to have, and usually do have clients where they
> >can run cron jobs, etc. to manipulate NAS filesystem contents remotely).
> >
> >  
> Fishworks is for finance director and manage director,is nice, fast and 
> can do simple operations,
> Bash is for administrators which need real features and functionality 
> which can configure to own environment.

I don't believe that's correct.  But if you want access to the OS then
you can just run OpenSolaris.  That's one great consequence of building
the appliance on top of a general purpose OS.

> >Why should the use of a general-purposed operating system make the
> >system slow?  After all, the appliance doesn't run a full Solaris
> >install, but a minimized version of it.
> >  
> Without Zones, RBAC  ? Why Solaris is know as Slowaris ?

That is an old epithet, it was never connected with RBAC or zones
(zones long postdates that epithet), and it's not accurate nowadays.

And yes, FW doesn't use zones.  It does use RBAC though.

> You never know what exactly  customers need and, in this way, you are 
> unable to implement this functionality in fishworks.

The FW team has spent a lot of time talking to customers and prospective
customers.  I think you owe the FW team the benefit of the doubt on
this.

Nico
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Maciej Browarski wrote:
> When creating pool I don't know when will be done and I can't abort this
> operation.

Doesn't creation of a pool take just a second or two?

> I know that manage ZFS from one pool is simpler, but when customer using
> 7000 for two or many department, and each department buy own disks,so
> there also need to own administration. But seeing other posting I
> waiting to mid 2009 for this functionality.

This is a funny antique way of allocating storage.

> Without Zones, RBAC  ? Why Solaris is know as Slowaris ?
> We win in I/O ops because we use SSD disks. Now we must sell many 7000
> as we can until competition  launching NAS with SSD.

Slowaris sounds neat, just like people often call Microsoft Windows 
"Windoze".  The only thing slow about Solaris is the boot time, 
otherwise it is quite fast, and particularly for server tasks.

> You never know what exactly  customers need and, in this way, you are
> unable to implement this functionality in fishworks.

Hopefully customers will tell Sun why they decided to not purchase the 
product. :-)

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-10 Thread Maciej Browarski
Nicolas Williams pisze:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:31:40PM +0100, Maciej Browarski wrote:
>   
>> Sorry, what I writing below, but I was on customer site using simulator and:
>> 1. fishworks is nice (for first look and first use and for newbie ) but
>> - not so flex ( only one storage pool, hanging when creating pool - how 
>> to about this operations?, how to restart only GUI without restarting 
>> server, can't view contents filestystems without mounting that) 
>> 
>
> It's really difficult to understand all of what you're saying.
>
> As far as "restarting the GUI" -- the GUI is a BUI, a *browser* UI, and
> there's nothing to restart except the web service or the whole system.
>
> As for why only one pool (two in clusters): that's because ZFS can
> manage all the storage, so it's a lot simpler for the configuration
> system to just let ZFS manage all the storage, rather than have to let
> the customer mix and match disks in multiple pools.
>
>   
OK, his is BUI,so how simple I can restart it ?
When creating pool I don't know when will be done and I can't abort this 
operation.
I know that manage ZFS from one pool is simpler, but when customer using 
7000 for two or many department, and each department buy own disks,so 
there also need to own administration. But seeing other posting I 
waiting to mid 2009 for this functionality.

>> - don't have many net protocols (where is ssh, scp, sftp, rsync and other)
>> 
>
> Good point.
>
>   
>> - have C-like, PERL-like scripts and whatever like.Sorry, but  I don't  
>> have  time to learn new  language, which is only in this appliance.
>> 
>
> There's a ECMAScript (a.k.a., JavaScript) API.  It's quite complete and
> documented.
>
>   
>> For me useful option in CLI is 'shell' command,why:
>> - I can run wget to download big *.iso site, which can I very fast share 
>> with other on ftp protocol.(this is very useful to make mirrors site).
>> -  I can restart fishworks,
>> - useful commands like ifconfig, arp,ping -s
>> - make more DTrace scripts,
>> - make jumpstart, and so on,
>> - copy PERL,BASH scripts from Linux box, which make any synchronization 
>> between many sites.
>> - I have crontab to wget's,scp from other site.
>> 
>
> And can you do any of those things on any other NAS *appliance*?
>
> If you want to be able to run any DTrace script then build an NAS box
> using Solaris (or MacOS X, or FreeBSD).
>
> You can also do things like downloads (cron'ed or not), etcetera on a
> CIFS or NFS client of your NAS appliance.
>
>   
Do you know that, that administrator are lazy to learn new language scripts?
Have we synchronize replication ? NetAPP win in this very important 
point. But we can use AVS. But how this implement in OpenStorage ?

>> So,why need I fishworks ? Because this is for newbie and not so 
>> technical person, and we can fast make first running and useful 
>> configuration. (this is very good argument, that in 5 minutes, in nice 
>> GUI, I can configuring Pool, User and FTP and CIFS). But other 
>> appliance  can  this too.
>> 
>
> It's not for "newbies."  It's for enterprise customers (who,
> incidentally, can afford to have, and usually do have clients where they
> can run cron jobs, etc. to manipulate NAS filesystem contents remotely).
>
>   
Fishworks is for finance director and manage director,is nice, fast and 
can do simple operations,
Bash is for administrators which need real features and functionality 
which can configure to own environment.

On meetings we have finance director and administrators, and we can win 
with both !!
>> Conclusion:
>> OpenStorage 7000 with fishworks is like other NAS (almost these same 
>> features), but not so fast because we using full Operating Systems.
>> 
>
> I seriously doubt that you have done any benchmarking to back up a claim
> like that.
>
> Why should the use of a general-purposed operating system make the
> system slow?  After all, the appliance doesn't run a full Solaris
> install, but a minimized version of it.
>
>   
Without Zones, RBAC  ? Why Solaris is know as Slowaris ?
We win in I/O ops because we use SSD disks. Now we must sell many 7000 
as we can until competition  launching NAS with SSD.
>> So, closing way to log in to shell you will cut branch on which you sit.
>> 
>
> I don't agree.  The reason that the full power of Solaris is hidden is
> to make support simpler.  By using documented, supported ECMAScript APIs
> we get to control the amount of misconfiguration that can result while
> still giving the customer a lot of power.
>
> Nico
>   

Yes, support is simpler. But SUN company is know that administrators can 
do more with boxes than competition.

You never know what exactly  customers need and, in this way, you are 
unable to implement this functionality in fishworks.

Regards
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-09 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:31:40PM +0100, Maciej Browarski wrote:
> Sorry, what I writing below, but I was on customer site using simulator and:
> 1. fishworks is nice (for first look and first use and for newbie ) but
> - not so flex ( only one storage pool, hanging when creating pool - how 
> to about this operations?, how to restart only GUI without restarting 
> server, can't view contents filestystems without mounting that) 

It's really difficult to understand all of what you're saying.

As far as "restarting the GUI" -- the GUI is a BUI, a *browser* UI, and
there's nothing to restart except the web service or the whole system.

As for why only one pool (two in clusters): that's because ZFS can
manage all the storage, so it's a lot simpler for the configuration
system to just let ZFS manage all the storage, rather than have to let
the customer mix and match disks in multiple pools.

> - don't have many net protocols (where is ssh, scp, sftp, rsync and other)

Good point.

> - have C-like, PERL-like scripts and whatever like.Sorry, but  I don't  
> have  time to learn new  language, which is only in this appliance.

There's a ECMAScript (a.k.a., JavaScript) API.  It's quite complete and
documented.

> For me useful option in CLI is 'shell' command,why:
> - I can run wget to download big *.iso site, which can I very fast share 
> with other on ftp protocol.(this is very useful to make mirrors site).
> -  I can restart fishworks,
> - useful commands like ifconfig, arp,ping -s
> - make more DTrace scripts,
> - make jumpstart, and so on,
> - copy PERL,BASH scripts from Linux box, which make any synchronization 
> between many sites.
> - I have crontab to wget's,scp from other site.

And can you do any of those things on any other NAS *appliance*?

If you want to be able to run any DTrace script then build an NAS box
using Solaris (or MacOS X, or FreeBSD).

You can also do things like downloads (cron'ed or not), etcetera on a
CIFS or NFS client of your NAS appliance.

> So,why need I fishworks ? Because this is for newbie and not so 
> technical person, and we can fast make first running and useful 
> configuration. (this is very good argument, that in 5 minutes, in nice 
> GUI, I can configuring Pool, User and FTP and CIFS). But other 
> appliance  can  this too.

It's not for "newbies."  It's for enterprise customers (who,
incidentally, can afford to have, and usually do have clients where they
can run cron jobs, etc. to manipulate NAS filesystem contents remotely).

> Conclusion:
> OpenStorage 7000 with fishworks is like other NAS (almost these same 
> features), but not so fast because we using full Operating Systems.

I seriously doubt that you have done any benchmarking to back up a claim
like that.

Why should the use of a general-purposed operating system make the
system slow?  After all, the appliance doesn't run a full Solaris
install, but a minimized version of it.

> So, closing way to log in to shell you will cut branch on which you sit.

I don't agree.  The reason that the full power of Solaris is hidden is
to make support simpler.  By using documented, supported ECMAScript APIs
we get to control the amount of misconfiguration that can result while
still giving the customer a lot of power.

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Maciej Browarski wrote:
> OpenStorage 7000 with fishworks is like other NAS (almost these same
> features), but not so fast because we using full Operating Systems.

I was with you up to this point and then I got lost.  Before saying 
"not so fast" I think that the claim should be verified.  I suspect 
quite the opposite.

Most appliance devices have hardly any cache, and it is mostly write 
cache.  An OpenSolaris device has a huge cache, with an enormous 
RAM-based read cache.  The Fishworks systems also use battery backed 
DRAM as a write cache.

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-09 Thread Maciej Browarski
Nicolas Williams pisze:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:49:38PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Maciej Browarski wrote:
>>>
>>>   
 Hello,
 What are benefits of using OpenSolaris on S7000, because when I using
 fishworks I can't login to OpenSolaris. (or is this possible but not so
 simple?)
 
>>> This is an "appliance" "firmware" type product. You are not supposed
>>> to be aware that OpenSolaris is inside or modify it in any way beyond
>>> what the administrative interfaces support or add-on hardware that Sun
>>> may offer.
>>>   
>> FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
>> ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is
>> inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
>> differentiator.
>> 
>
> It is a major differentiator, but that does NOT mean that the OS is
> directly accessible to users[*].
>
> There is no need for users to access any Solaris shell directly on the
> Sun storage appliance.
>
> Nico
>
> [*] Actually, it is directly accessible to users, but accessing the OS
> directly voids your warranty and renders the system unsupportable.
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Sorry, what I writing below, but I was on customer site using simulator and:
1. fishworks is nice (for first look and first use and for newbie ) but
- not so flex ( only one storage pool, hanging when creating pool - how 
to about this operations?, how to restart only GUI without restarting 
server, can't view contents filestystems without mounting that) 
- don't have many net protocols (where is ssh, scp, sftp, rsync and other)
- have C-like, PERL-like scripts and whatever like.Sorry, but  I don't  
have  time to learn new  language, which is only in this appliance.

For me useful option in CLI is 'shell' command,why:
- I can run wget to download big *.iso site, which can I very fast share 
with other on ftp protocol.(this is very useful to make mirrors site).
-  I can restart fishworks,
- useful commands like ifconfig, arp,ping -s
- make more DTrace scripts,
- make jumpstart, and so on,
- copy PERL,BASH scripts from Linux box, which make any synchronization 
between many sites.
- I have crontab to wget's,scp from other site.

So,why need I fishworks ? Because this is for newbie and not so 
technical person, and we can fast make first running and useful 
configuration. (this is very good argument, that in 5 minutes, in nice 
GUI, I can configuring Pool, User and FTP and CIFS). But other 
appliance  can  this too.

Conclusion:
OpenStorage 7000 with fishworks is like other NAS (almost these same 
features), but not so fast because we using full Operating Systems.
We WIN with OpenStorage to other because customer have big storage which 
can scripts and configuring how he like, and is not limited to 
'firmware' operating systems.  (look to Wireless Router: LinkSys WRT-54 
systems, where you can load Linux systems and make things how to you like).

So, closing way to log in to shell you will cut branch on which you sit.

Regards,
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-09 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:49:38PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
>  wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Maciej Browarski wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> What are benefits of using OpenSolaris on S7000, because when I using
> >> fishworks I can't login to OpenSolaris. (or is this possible but not so
> >> simple?)
> >
> > This is an "appliance" "firmware" type product. You are not supposed
> > to be aware that OpenSolaris is inside or modify it in any way beyond
> > what the administrative interfaces support or add-on hardware that Sun
> > may offer.
> 
> FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
> ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is
> inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
> differentiator.

It is a major differentiator, but that does NOT mean that the OS is
directly accessible to users[*].

There is no need for users to access any Solaris shell directly on the
Sun storage appliance.

Nico

[*] Actually, it is directly accessible to users, but accessing the OS
directly voids your warranty and renders the system unsupportable.
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-09 Thread Bill Pijewski
Maciej Browarski wrote:
  > So, to go step forward.
> Can you give any instruction how to write a perl/bash scripts (or any 
> documentation with official API) and loads this to s7000 ?
> Or this can be done only by sun's engineers ?
> Or how i can log on and check this.

Pardon the late reply, I don't check this alias very often.

The storage appliance does have a captive scripting environment which allows 
you 
to write a Javascript-like script and programmatically interact with the 
system. 
  While it's not the usual 'zfs create ...' script you would expect, we've 
tried 
to make the abstractions simple and easy to use.  These scripts can be run over 
SSH, so you can wrap the scripts to configure the 7000 storage appliances in 
whatever perl/bash scripts you're used to.

Check out:

http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/on_modalities_and_misadventures
http://blogs.sun.com/was/entry/scripting_storage_amber_road_aka

Also, if you've downloaded the VMWare image, click on the HELP link and search 
for 'Scripting'.  That documentation shows a detailed example of constructing 
such a script.  The full product documentation should be on docs.sun.com 
shortly, and that site will have the same content.

- Bill

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-05 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
I wouldn't recommend messing around with the OpenSolaris underpinning
or you'll brick your appliance. Everything in FW (including network
set up) is stuffed into a SVC manifest. Also, parts of the OS
read-only to keep you from bricking it. The layout and configuration
of FW is very different from a normal Solaris box.

-J

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Mike La Spina  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I observed a 7110 system demo the Sun rep was accessing the CLI and 
> performing system level commands like svcadm restart etc. Have you explored 
> the CLI? There seems to be no online docs that I can find to show otherwise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> http://blog.laspina.ca/
>
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Jose Borrego wrote:
>>>
>> So, to go step forward.
>> Can you give any instruction how to write a perl/bash scripts (or any
>> documentation with official API) and loads this to s7000 ?
>> Or this can be done only by sun's engineers ?
>> Or how i can log on and check this.
>
> There is no such documentation or API. As it was said it is an appliance,
> what you are trying to do is discouraged.

The name of the user PERL script is "subvert_fishworks.pl".  Does that 
make it more acceptable to Sun as a user installed root-level script?

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-05 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi,

When I observed a 7110 system demo the Sun rep was accessing the CLI and 
performing system level commands like svcadm restart etc. Have you explored the 
CLI? There seems to be no online docs that I can find to show otherwise.

Regards,

Mike

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-05 Thread Jose Borrego


> -Original Message-
> From: [email protected] [mailto:storage-discuss-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Maciej Browarski
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000
> 
> 
> 
> Cyril Plisko wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
> >  wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Cyril Plisko wrote:
> >>
> >>> FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
> >>> ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris)
> is
> >>> inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
> >>> differentiator.
> >>>
> >> Was this official wearing a badge?
> >>
> >
> > Yup. And it was in Sun' office too.
> >
> >
> >> Certainly significant companies which
> >> negotiate with Sun can arrange for their software to be included
> somehow.
> >>  Companies who offer backup sofware or virus scanning will have
> >> opportunities.  Regardless, it is a "firmware" style product.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I tend to agree with you.
> >
> >
> So, to go step forward.
> Can you give any instruction how to write a perl/bash scripts (or any
> documentation with official API) and loads this to s7000 ?
> Or this can be done only by sun's engineers ?
> Or how i can log on and check this.

There is no such documentation or API. As it was said it is an appliance,
what you are trying to do is discouraged.

- Jose 

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-05 Thread Maciej Browarski


Cyril Plisko wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
>  wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Cyril Plisko wrote:
>> 
>>> FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
>>> ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is
>>> inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
>>> differentiator.
>>>   
>> Was this official wearing a badge?
>> 
>
> Yup. And it was in Sun' office too.
>
>   
>> Certainly significant companies which
>> negotiate with Sun can arrange for their software to be included somehow.
>>  Companies who offer backup sofware or virus scanning will have
>> opportunities.  Regardless, it is a "firmware" style product.
>> 
>
> Yeah, I tend to agree with you.
>
>   
So, to go step forward.
Can you give any instruction how to write a perl/bash scripts (or any 
documentation with official API) and loads this to s7000 ?
Or this can be done only by sun's engineers ?
Or how i can log on and check this.

Regards,
Maciej

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-04 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
 wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Cyril Plisko wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
>> ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is
>> inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
>> differentiator.
>
> Was this official wearing a badge?

Yup. And it was in Sun' office too.

> Certainly significant companies which
> negotiate with Sun can arrange for their software to be included somehow.
>  Companies who offer backup sofware or virus scanning will have
> opportunities.  Regardless, it is a "firmware" style product.

Yeah, I tend to agree with you.

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Regards,
Cyril
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Cyril Plisko wrote:
>
> FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
> ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is
> inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
> differentiator.

Was this official wearing a badge?  Certainly significant companies 
which negotiate with Sun can arrange for their software to be included 
somehow.  Companies who offer backup sofware or virus scanning will 
have opportunities.  Regardless, it is a "firmware" style product.

Bob
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[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-04 Thread Dale Ghent
On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Cyril Plisko wrote:

> FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
> ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is
> inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
> differentiator.

The base OS is indeed based on Nevada. It's not based on OpenSolaris,  
the distro. OpenSolaris itself is based on Nevada, of course. The OS  
running on the os7000 line can be though of as its own distro based on  
the Nevada codebase. This means that the os7000 equipment uses the  
same iscsi, nfs, cifs and so on bits that are in Nevada, and by  
extension, that are in OpenSolaris.

The Open Storage 7000 web GUI, the CLI, clustering, analytics and all  
the code that runs those components is a separate code base based on  
something called "Application Kit" or "ak". This is the "closed  
source" part of the product. In practical terms, this is the part that  
makes the os7000 different from a basic install of SXCE.

/dale
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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-04 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
 wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Maciej Browarski wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> What are benefits of using OpenSolaris on S7000, because when I using
>> fishworks I can't login to OpenSolaris. (or is this possible but not so
>> simple?)
>
> This is an "appliance" "firmware" type product. You are not supposed
> to be aware that OpenSolaris is inside or modify it in any way beyond
> what the administrative interfaces support or add-on hardware that Sun
> may offer.

FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly
ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is
inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major
differentiator.

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Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris on s7000

2009-01-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Maciej Browarski wrote:

> Hello,
> What are benefits of using OpenSolaris on S7000, because when I using
> fishworks I can't login to OpenSolaris. (or is this possible but not so
> simple?)

This is an "appliance" "firmware" type product. You are not supposed 
to be aware that OpenSolaris is inside or modify it in any way beyond 
what the administrative interfaces support or add-on hardware that Sun 
may offer.

Bob
==
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[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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