Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.09.2013 21:45, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I also wonder if http://reviews.cnet.com/adapters-nics/hp-ethernet-1gb-4/4507-3380_7-35338794.html is supported by the tg3-module ? preparing that system within a KVM-based VM now. I pre-compile the kernel as well ... the host will run

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-09-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 20:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.08.2013 18:35, schrieb Pandu Poluan: That said, when I was hunting around for information on ZFS before taking the plunge, a *lot* of discussion revolves around using ZFS as the storage back-end for virtualization, be it using KVM or

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-09-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.09.2013 12:28, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Another option would be: I once sliced disks into partitions like this: sd[abcdefgh]1 - RAID1 for / sd[abcdefgh]2 - swap sd[abcdefgh]3 - RAID6 - PV - LVs ... for data and VMs What about that? (I think I also had a small RAID for

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-26 11:51 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array. Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's. Where is the best docs for understanding and working with ZFS? RAID types, Best Practices (especially for disaster

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:34:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Where is the best docs for understanding and working with ZFS? There are plenty of links on the zfsforlinux site. -- Neil Bothwick BING But It's Not Google signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2013 14:34, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-08-26 11:51 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array. Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's. Where is the best docs for understanding and working with ZFS? RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:34:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Where is the best docs for understanding and working with ZFS? There are plenty of links on the zfsforlinux site. on Linux, not for Linux ... http://zfsonlinux.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:07:58 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: There are plenty of links on the zfsforlinux site. on Linux, not for Linux ... http://zfsonlinux.org/ That one too ;-) -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, give up. No use being a damn fool. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
We now get into choosing hardware for that shiny new gentoo-server ... as mentioned this will be a KVM-host and we look at a HP Proliant DL385p ... 2 AMD Opteron 6344 ... 32 GB RAM, 8 disks (the customer has some bigger contract with hp, so we are a bit biased to hp here). For the server that

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 26, 2013 9:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: We now get into choosing hardware for that shiny new gentoo-server ... as mentioned this will be a KVM-host and we look at a HP Proliant DL385p ... 2 AMD Opteron 6344 ... 32 GB RAM, 8 disks (the customer has some bigger

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: Am 26.08.2013 17:51, schrieb Pandu Poluan: 2 smallest disks in RAID1 configuration for booting. Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array. Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's.

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 17:51, schrieb Pandu Poluan: 2 smallest disks in RAID1 configuration for booting. Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array. Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's. Interesting suggestion. I don't know if I dare ... I wonder how VMs would

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 18:14, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well... with a ZFS-backed storage, when you want to create a new VM, all you have to do is `zfs clone` ;-) Yes, I see those possibilities ;-) That system will run rather important stuff ... so I have to be rather careful. But the

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: Am 26.08.2013 18:14, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well... with a ZFS-backed storage, when you want to create a new VM, all you have to do is `zfs clone` ;-) Yes, I see those possibilities ;-) That system will run

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.08.2013 18:35, schrieb Pandu Poluan: I have to admit that my virtualized servers are not running on top of ZFS-backed storage... because the company already has a quite sizable EMC VNX storage, and it's a shame to not use that behemoth... ;-) For sure! :-) At the moment, the

[gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
! Pls don't flame me :-) ! Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers servers. A customer of mine chose SLES 10 back then to run a VMware-Server installation (1.0.x back then) because they had some big company-license-pool available. That server is to be replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/08/2013 23:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: ! Pls don't flame me :-) ! Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers servers. A customer of mine chose SLES 10 back then to run a VMware-Server installation (1.0.x back then) because they had some big

Re: [gentoo-user] SLES or gentoo ... ?

2013-08-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.08.2013 23:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 05/08/2013 23:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: ! Pls don't flame me :-) ! Don't misunderstand ... I happily trust gentoo on most of my customers servers. A customer of mine chose SLES 10 back then to run a VMware-Server installation (1.0.x