Yep, Hadn't gotten as far as the wifes photos that she was working on, she still had the originals, but not the work she had done on them, about 40gigs worth. It was a bit quiet in our house for a while :)
Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: [email protected] From: "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 20/11/2009 15:48 Subject: RE: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? Well wasn?t _THAT_ a convenient time for the drive to fail! -sc From: tony patton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? I *thought* i needed the whole tera to copy everything from my 2x500gig stripe in my main PC, but 1 of the hard drives failed halfway through and lost what i hadn't copied and wanted to use it to store vms as well. have about 500gig free on the new vm store, will probably create an extra volume in OF and transfer stuff into it then remove the terabyte volume. Just couldn't be ar$ed at the moment. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: [email protected] From: "Steven M. Caesare" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 20/11/2009 15:06 Subject: RE: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? You mean shrink once it?s been carved out? Did you carve then that large to begin with for a reason? -sc From: tony patton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? I have openfiler as a VM in ESXi with an NFS connection back to it from the host. Far from ideal, but at the time the server only had a 1tb and 160gig satas, since changed the 160 for another tera. The big niggle I have with openfiler is that you can't shrink the disks, it has the whole terabyte. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: [email protected] From: Jonathan Link <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 20/11/2009 14:54 Subject: Re: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? That is good to know, I'll keep it in mind as I begin developing my home environment... On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: So far I have them that way, simply because in testing that was the easiest, and I don?t have a Virtual Center setup that allows for vMotion anyway L. However, I opted for OpenFiler over the easier-to-setup FreeNAS because recent reports suggest that vMotion on OpenFiler is now supported, hence I assume the reservation issue may be resolved. Thanks Jonathan. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? I would suggest that the VM's accessed by each host be on separate LUN's. OpenFiler, as of the this past may did not support SCSI-3 reservations which can wreak some havoc with multiple ESXi hosts accessing one lun. I used it in production, successfully for over a year due to a necessity of inheriting an ill-conceived budget from my predecessor and enduring a probationary period of proving myself and my methodology to the firm. The situation I Was using it in was one VM host with three guests all of which were not at the time considered mission critical. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Doing some testing with OpenFiler for iSCSI SAN testing. I?m presenting LUN?s via GigE links to my ESXi boxen hosting Win2K3 and Win2K8 VM?s. So far I?m pretty impressed? and the price is right for a home network. Anybody played with it and/or have any pointers to best practices or performances considerations? 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