Re: [zfs-discuss] Use of blocksize (-b) during zfs zvol create, poor performance

2010-06-30 Thread Mike La Spina
Hi Eff, There are a significant number of variables to work through with dedup and compression enabled. So the first suggestion I have is to disable those features for now so your not working with too many elements. With those features set aside an NTFS cluster operation does not = a 64k raw

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-19 Thread Mike La Spina
I use zfs send/recv in the enterprise and in smaller environments all time and it's is excellent. Have a look at how awesome the functionally is in this example. http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zfs Regards, Mike -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! SNV_97, 98, 99 zfs with iscsitadm and VMWare!

2008-10-18 Thread Mike La Spina
Ciao, Your GUID's must not be the same an NAA is already established on the targets and if you previously tried to initialize the LUN with VMware it would have assigned the value in the VMFS header wich is now stored on your raw ZFS backing store. This will confuse VMware and it will remember

Re: [zfs-discuss] HELP! SNV_97, 98, 99 zfs with iscsitadm and VMWare!

2008-10-17 Thread Mike La Spina
Hello Tano, The issue here is not the target or VMware but a missing GUID on the target as the issue. Observe the target smf properties using iscsitadm list target -v You have iSCSI Name: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:35ec26d8-f173-6dd5-b239-93a9690ffe46.vscsi Connections: 0 ACL list: TPGT list: