Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Am 02.06.2014 09:38, schrieb Jim Klimov: Hello friends, and sorry for cross-posting to different audiences like this, .. The box should be a reliable rackable server with remote management, substantial ECC RAM for efficient ZFS and VM needs (128-256gb likely, possibly more), CPUs with all tho

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Maybe I am demonstrating my ignorance here, but another might be: a decent GUI. This is one of the places where kvm falls down badly, IMO. You seem have have three choices: 1. Go the CLI route. 2. Install a distro with a GUI, and use whatever builtin tools support t

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

> OTOH, the only reason to use ESXi in the first place would be if you want > to virtualize something that doesn’t fit well onto Illumos KVM. Maybe I am demonstrating my ignorance here, but another might be: a decent GUI. This is one of the places where kvm falls down badly, IMO. You seem have

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Dan, I wouldn’t think you would want to migrate an Illumos storage appliance using ESXi/vSphere, no. AFAIK, the things you can’t do in an ESXi VM with PCI passthrough (a. k. a. VMDirectPath) enabled are the following: - migration (a. k. a. vMotion) - memory overcommit - snapshots - suspend and

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

> > Note that once you activate PCI passthru, you lose many of the advanced > features of ESXi, such as migration. Chris, thanks for all the info. I'm not sure I understand the relevance of your quoted comment. Since this is an all-in-one server, I would think by definition you are never going to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

-"OmniOS-discuss" skrev: - Till: OmniOS-discuss Från: Chris Ferebee Sänt av: "OmniOS-discuss" Datum: 2014-06-02 14:01 Ärende: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server "Jim, If you haven’t already, you certainly want to study Joyent’s part

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Jim, If you haven’t already, you certainly want to study Joyent’s parts lists closely: Generally speaking, Supermicro is preferred, LSI HBAs in IT mode are almost mandatory, and a STEC ZeusRAM slog device might best for your use case if you do

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Jim Klimov wrote: Thus the box we'd build should be good with storage (including responsive read-write NFS) and VM hosting. I am not sure whether OI, OmniOS or ESX(i?) with HBA passthrough onto an illumos-based storage/infrastructure services VM would be a better fit. Also, I was away from sho

[OmniOS-discuss] Shopping for an all-in-one server

Hello friends, and sorry for cross-posting to different audiences like this, I am helping to spec out a new server for a software development department, and I am inclined to use an illumos-based system for the benefits of ZFS and file-serving and zones primarily. However, much of the target wor