Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-07 Thread Ross
To repeat what some others have said, yes, Solaris seems to handle an iSCSI device going offline in that it doesn't panick and continues working once everything has timed out. However that doesn't necessarily mean it's ready for production use. ZFS will hang for 3 mins (180 seconds) waiting

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Elling
Ross wrote: To repeat what some others have said, yes, Solaris seems to handle an iSCSI device going offline in that it doesn't panick and continues working once everything has timed out. However that doesn't necessarily mean it's ready for production use. ZFS will hang for 3 mins (180

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Ross wrote: However that doesn't necessarily mean it's ready for production use. ZFS will hang for 3 mins (180 seconds) waiting for the iSCSI client to timeout. Now I don't know about you, but HA to me doesn't mean Highly Available, but with occasional 3 minute breaks.

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-07 Thread Christine Tran
Crazy question here... but has anyone tried this with say, a QLogic hardware iSCSI card? Seems like it would solve all your issues. Granted, they aren't free like the software stack, but if you're trying to setup an HA solution, the ~$800 price tag per card seems pretty darn reasonable

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Christine Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crazy question here... but has anyone tried this with say, a QLogic hardware iSCSI card? Seems like it would solve all your issues. Granted, they aren't free like the software stack, but if you're trying to setup an

[zfs-discuss] iSCSI targets mapped to a VMWare ESX server

2008-04-07 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi All ; We are running latest Solaris 10 a X4500 Thumper. We defined a test iSCSI Lun. Out put below Target: AkhanTemp/VM iSCSI Name: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:72406bf8-2f5f-635a-f64c-cb664935f3d1 Alias: AkhanTemp/VM Connections: 0 ACL list: TPGT list: LUN

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI targets mapped to a VMWare ESX server

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Dunham
Mertol Ozyoney wrote: Hi All ; There are a set of issues being looked at that prevent the VMWare ESX server from working with the Solaris iSCSI Target. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6597310 At this time there is no target date when this issues will

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris ZFS NAS Setup

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Elling
Ross Smith wrote: Which again is unacceptable for network storage. If hardware raid controllers took over a minute to timeout a drive network admins would be in uproar. Why should software be held to a different standard? You need to take a systems approach to analyzing these things. For

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI targets mapped to a VMWare ESX server

2008-04-07 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Thanks James ; The problem is nearly identical with mine. When we had 2 LUN's vmware tried to multipath over them . I think this is a bug inside VMWare as it thinks that two LUN 0 are same. I think I can fool it setting up targets with different LUN numbers. After I figured out this, I

[zfs-discuss] Downgrade zpool version?

2008-04-07 Thread David Loose
I've been using ZFS on my home media server for about a year now. There's a lot I like about Solaris, but the rest of the computers in my house are Macs. Now that the Mac has experimental read/write support for ZFS, I'd like to migrate my zpool to my Mac Pro. I primarily use the machine to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per filesystem scrub

2008-04-07 Thread Peter Tribble
Jeff, On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Jeff Bonwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, That's a great suggestion. And as fortune would have it, we have the code to do it already. Scrubbing in ZFS is driven from the logical layer, not the physical layer. When you scrub a pool, you're

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI targets mapped to a VMWare ESX server

2008-04-07 Thread kristof
Some time ago I experienced the same issue. Only 1 target could be connected from an esx host. Others were shown as alternative paths to that target. If I'm reminding correctly I thought I read on a forum it has something to do with the disks serial number. Normally every single (i)scsi disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Downgrade zpool version?

2008-04-07 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:46 PM, David Loose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that I upgraded to Solaris nv84 a while ago and bumped my zpool to version 9 (I think) at that time. The Macintosh guys only support up to version 8. There doesn't seem to be too much activity on the ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Downgrade zpool version?

2008-04-07 Thread Keith Bierman
On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:46 PM, David Loose wrote: my Solaris samba shares never really played well with iTunes. Another approach might be to stick with Solaris on the server, and run netatalk netatalk.sourceforge.net instead of SAMBA (or, you know your macs can speak NFS ;). -- Keith H.