Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

2014-11-25 Thread Schweiss, Chip
, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: Started an installation a new Haswell based Supermicro server. (*X10DRU-i+ * http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRU-i_.cfmmotherboard) The floppy controller is completely gone from these systems

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

2014-11-25 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 03:04:35PM -0600, Schweiss, Chip wrote: The floppy controller is completely gone from these systems and causing the installer to panic when loading. Anyone aware of a workaround? Check

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

2014-11-25 Thread Schweiss, Chip
X2APCI is the culprit. Needs to be disabled in the BIOs. Worked without the floppy at all. Hopefully this will be useful to someone else. -Chip On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: Beginning to suspect this is something else. OpenIndiana's ISO panics

[OmniOS-discuss] crash dump speed painfully slow

2014-11-05 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I had a system crash this morning when I/O on a pool was hung with failmode=panic. That was 7 1/2 hours ago and it's at 64%.I'm going to let it complete so the failure can be analyzed more, but I really need to find a way to significantly speed up the crash dumps. This system has 256GB ram

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] crash dump speed painfully slow

2014-11-05 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: On Nov 5, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Schweiss, Chip via illumos-discuss disc...@lists.illumos.org wrote: I had a system crash this morning when I/O on a pool was hung with failmode=panic. What version of OmniOS are you

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS bloody now updated.

2014-10-28 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I went to grab the latest Bloody today, the download links seems to be broken on this page: http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Installation Is there a better link? -Chip On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: Pardon the delay. I was waiting for one of the new

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS bloody now updated.

2014-10-28 Thread Schweiss, Chip
That did it. Thanks! -Chip On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: On Oct 28, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: On Oct 28, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: I went to grab the latest Bloody today

[OmniOS-discuss] Installing on VMware Workstation

2014-10-28 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I've been regularly using OmniOS on ESXi since r151006 without issue. I'm stuck trying to install on VMware Workstation 10 on Windows 7 64bit. At the Welcome to OmniOS screen it dies after pressing F2 and returns to installation menu every time. I've tried telling VMware it's Solaris 11/64,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Installing on VMware Workstation

2014-10-28 Thread Schweiss, Chip
. It should work. Fred 2014-10-28 22:00 GMT+01:00 Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com: I've been regularly using OmniOS on ESXi since r151006 without issue. I'm stuck trying to install on VMware Workstation 10 on Windows 7 64bit. At the Welcome to OmniOS screen it dies after pressing F2

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Dell R730xd

2014-10-20 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Recently we had a quote from Dell w/ Nexenta. They specify Intel NICs and LSI HBAs when building with Nexenta. -Chip On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Marion Hakanson hakan...@ohsu.edu wrote: I don't know if it's true for the R730xd, but Dell will equip your R720xd with an LSI-branded HBA

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151012 nlockmgr fails to start

2014-10-10 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: On Oct 9, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: Just tried my 2nd system. r151010 nlockmgr starts after clearing maintenance mode. r151012 it will not start at all. nfs/status was enabled

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151012 nlockmgr fails to start

2014-10-09 Thread Schweiss, Chip
mapped to a different location. nlockmgr is becoming a real show stopper. -Chip I've done 3 other upgrades to r151012 and none of them had a problem with nlockmgr... Kevin On 10/06/2014 09:56 AM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151012 nlockmgr fails to start

2014-10-06 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: On Oct 6, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: Anyone else seeing this in r151012? Any tips on collecting better information on this would be appreciated. I saw this in once in 012

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] NFSv4 client soft lockups

2014-09-12 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Is you RHEL 6.5 client a virtual machine? If so this message is a red herring to your problem. See the VMware KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1009996 I run all NFSv4 from CentOS 6.5 to OmniOS, but do not use kerberos.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Win 8.1 NFS client

2014-06-16 Thread Schweiss, Chip
The issue I have seen was different. I experienced the same NFSv3 lock manager failures, but with Linux clients. I switched all mounts except VMware to NFSv4 and things became MUCH more stable. I still see periodically the NFS server become unresponsive. The server never crashes or the lock

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Win 8.1 NFS client

2014-06-16 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Ctrl-C. The resulting dump file can be examined in wireshark. -Chip THanks! On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: The issue I have seen was different. I experienced the same NFSv3 lock manager failures, but with Linux clients. I switched all mounts

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Win 8.1 NFS client

2014-06-13 Thread Schweiss, Chip
You may have revealed the cause of a problem I've seen a few times, but have not made the correlation. In my case we have 100+ CentOS NFS clients and a periodic use of 2012R2 server connecting via NFS. I have had a few drop offs of the NFS server with out a single line in the event logs, just

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Status of TRIM support?

2014-05-28 Thread Schweiss, Chip
The 840 Pro doesn't have a super cap, but it does properly honor cache flushes which ZFS will do on a log device. This drastically reduces it's write performance and makes it a poor choice for a log device. Intel has several SATA SSDs with proper super-cap protected caches that make good log

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Status of TRIM support?

2014-05-28 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Doug Hughes d...@will.to wrote: Second this. The DC S3700 are very good. But, I tend to use the Intel 320 which are often available on amazon for just over $1/GB up to 600GB. They don't have as good of specs as the DC3700 (which are newer), but they do have

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Status of TRIM support?

2014-05-28 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Dan Swartzendruber dswa...@druber.comwrote: It looks to me like Sa¨o's design is active/standby failover. Zpool import on the standby should obtain a clean transaction group as long as the originally active system is still not using the pool. The result

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ANN: OmniOS r151010 (stable) released

2014-05-07 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I was looking forward to ZFS bookmarks, but it appears they are not working yet. I upgraded one of my test VMs and tried them: root@ZFSsendTest1:~# zfs snapshot testpool/zfs_send@snap_for_bookmark_test1 root@ZFSsendTest1:~# zfs bookmark testpool/zfs_send@snap_for_bookmark_testbookmark#1 cannot

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ANN: OmniOS r151010 (stable) released

2014-05-07 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: I was looking forward to ZFS bookmarks, but it appears they are not working yet. I upgraded one of my test VMs and tried them: root@ZFSsendTest1:~# zfs snapshot testpool/zfs_send@snap_for_bookmark_test1 root

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ANN: OmniOS r151010 (stable) released

2014-05-07 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Looks like the documentation needs to a bit clearer on the syntax. This worked: root@ZFSsendTest1:~# zfs bookmark testpool/zfs_send@snap_for_bookmark_test1testpool/zfs_send#bookmark1 On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:17 PM

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-23 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: # sg_write_buffer -v --in=MegalodonES3-SAS-STD-0004.LOD \ --length=1625600 --mode=5 /dev/rdsk/c9t5000C500578F774Bd0 Write buffer cmd: 3b 05 00 00 00 00 18 ce 00 00 ioctl(USCSICMD) failed with os_err (errno) =

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-23 Thread Schweiss, Chip
server now sees the disks just fine. There has to be a way to un-retire disks so they can be flashed, but I have not found such a way. -Chip On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-22 Thread Schweiss, Chip
22, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/18/14, 10:49 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: I used Santools, which is a licensed product. From what I understand lsiutil and sg_buffer_write from sg3-utils can do it too. The mode for sg_buffer_write may need to be set to 7

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-22 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Apr 21, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: I suspecting these drives have self-destructed. Can anyone confirm this firmware issue causes the drives to permanently go offline

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-22 Thread Schweiss, Chip
mpathadm also panics the kernel on OmniOS if there are any offline disks. Proceed with caution. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Apr 22, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/22/14, 5:03 PM, Schweiss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-21 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/18/14, 10:49 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: I used Santools, which is a licensed product. From what I understand lsiutil and sg_buffer_write from sg3-utils can do it too. The mode for sg_buffer_write may need to be set to 7 instead of 5 as stated

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-21 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I suspecting these drives have self-destructed. Can anyone confirm this firmware issue causes the drives to permanently go offline? -Chip On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: I have 20 disks that went offline because they reached 40C before I applied

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-18 Thread Schweiss, Chip
multipathing and I'm getting them to flash. -Chip On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/17/14, 6:27 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: Use the short form of the S/N: Z1Y18H7V Ok, thanks, didn't know there two forms... (FMA only prints one). -- Saso

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-18 Thread Schweiss, Chip
...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/18/14, 9:23 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: I've flashed 0004 to some of my Constellations so far. The drives are now set at a reference temperature of 60C which is much better than 40C. I had to disable mulltipathing to get these disks to flash. I'm not sure

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

2014-04-17 Thread Schweiss, Chip
You can get the Seagate firmwares from this link: https://apps1.seagate.com/downloads/request.html Seems they don't link to this on their site any more I found it in an old email from their site. -Chip On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I've

[OmniOS-discuss] Heads up: Redhat/CentOS NFSv3 clients file locking failures

2014-01-22 Thread Schweiss, Chip
A recent change in the NLM for NFSv3 has exposed a problem with the firewall on Redhat/CentOS. Connections back to the client are blocked by the firewall because the connection tracking module is not catching connections as part of the open NFS connections to the server. I have attempted to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] areca or lsi

2013-07-18 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I have used LSI HBAs exclusively. Performance and reliability has been very good. The only problem I have consistently seen is if I hotplug a sas expander with or without disks attached it will crash the system at least half the time. I have simple resolved never doing that hot. I have stuck

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