Bill McGonigle wrote: > So, being new to Nexenta, can anybody tell me if this would be > appropriate to do, if somebody's already done it, or given yes/no to > the above, point me in the right direction for doing it? >
I tried Nexenta/Xen/ZFS at home and gave up. The system would grind to a halt every few hours when running a number of DomUs. Once I stopped running Xen, things got much better. It's possible that a flakey power supply was a contributing factor, but I don't think that accounted for the grinding-to-a-halt aspect. I added a few parameters to the Xen kernel and also to ZFS (recommended on the Sun xVM listserv) to keep them from fighting over the memory, but those really didn't fix anything. But, I'm now running Debian on as Dom0 and using Nexenta on another box to store my backups -- zfs's snapshotting and resistance to bit-rot is exceptionally good for backups! And Nexenta is a pleasant way to build a system with a ZFS root. I really like Nexenta and I plan to continue using it as it matures, but it does need to mature a bit. -Luke _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
