[zfs-discuss] Computer usable output for zpool commands

2008-02-01 Thread Nicolas Dorfsman
Hi, I wrote an hobbit script around lunmap/hbamap commands to monitor SAN health. I'd like to add detail on what is being hosted by those luns. With svm metastat -p is helpful. With zfs, zpool status output is awful for script. Is there somewhere an utility to show zpool informations in a

[zfs-discuss] Case #65841812

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Macdonald - Sun Microsystem
Below is my customers issue. I am stuck on this one. I would appreciate if someone could help me out on this. Thanks in advance! ZFS Checksum feature: I/O checksum is one of the main ZFS features; however, there is also block checksum done by Oracle. This is good when utilizing UFS since

[zfs-discuss] How to get ZFS use the whole disk?

2008-02-01 Thread Roman Morokutti
Hi, I am new to ZFS and recently managed to get a ZFS root to work. These were the steps I have done: 1. Installed b81 (fresh install) 2. Unmounted /second_root on c0d0s4 3. Removed /etc/vfstab entry of /second_root 4. Executed ./zfs-actual-root-install.sh c0d0s4 5. Rebooted (init 6) After

[zfs-discuss] Un/Expected ZFS performance?

2008-02-01 Thread jiniusatwork-zfs
I'm running Postgresql (v8.1.10) on Solaris 10 (Sparc) from within a non-global zone. I originally had the database storage in the non-global zone (e.g. /var/local/pgsql/data on a UFS filesystem) and was getting performance of X (e.g. from a TPC-like application: http://www.tpc.org). I then

[zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz small IO write performance compared to raid controller

2008-02-01 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Hi all, Does anyone have any data to show how ZFS raidz with the on-disk cache enabled for small, random IOs compares to a raid controller card with cache in raid 5. I'm working on a very competitive RFP, and one thing that could give us an advantage is the ability to remove this controller

[zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Vincent Fox
Does anyone have any particularly creative ZFS replication strategies they could share? I have 5 high-performance Cyrus mail-servers, with about a Terabyte of storage each of which only 200-300 gigs is used though even including 14 days of snapshot space. I am thinking about setting up a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Case #65841812

2008-02-01 Thread Richard Elling
Scott Macdonald - Sun Microsystem wrote: Below is my customers issue. I am stuck on this one. I would appreciate if someone could help me out on this. Thanks in advance! ZFS Checksum feature: I/O checksum is one of the main ZFS features; however, there is also block checksum done by

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Dale Ghent
On Feb 1, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: Ideally I'd love it if ZFS directly supported the idea of rolling snapshots out into slower secondary storage disks on the SAN, but in the meanwhile looks like we have to roll our own solutions. If you're running some recent SXCE build, you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-01 Thread Marion Hakanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Depending on needs for space vs. performance, I'd probably pixk eithr 5*9 or 9*5, with 1 hot spare. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How you can check the speed (I'm totally newbie on Solaris) We're deploying a new Thumper w/750GB drives, and did space vs performance

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and SAN

2008-02-01 Thread Christophe Rolland
Hi all we consider using ZFS for various storages (DB, etc). Most features are great, especially the ease of use. Nevertheless, a few questions : - we are using SAN disks, so most JBOD recommandations dont apply, but I did not find many experiences of zpool of a few terabytes on Luns... anybody

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Jim Dunham
Erast, Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz small IO write performance compared to raid

2008-02-01 Thread Anton B. Rang
For small random I/O operations I would expect a substantial performance penalty for ZFS. The reason is that RAID-Z is more akin to RAID-3 than RAID-5; each read and write operation touches all of the drives. RAID-5 allows multiple I/O operations to proceed in parallel since each read and write

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz small IO write performance compared to raid controller

2008-02-01 Thread Richard Elling
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any data to show how ZFS raidz with the on-disk cache enabled for small, random IOs compares to a raid controller card with cache in raid 5. I'm working on a very competitive RFP, and one thing that could give us an advantage is the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration for a thumper

2008-02-01 Thread Albert Shih
Le 01/02/2008 à 11:17:14-0800, Marion Hakanson a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Depending on needs for space vs. performance, I'd probably pixk eithr 5*9 or 9*5, with 1 hot spare. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How you can check the speed (I'm totally newbie on Solaris) We're