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2013-06-07 Thread Rick Beets
Delighted to hear it bro! - May I point out that business types (who don't know any better...c) CAN come over to the Unix side: I was one and I did, precisely because of the crashing and viruses. Our sysadmin convinced me to ditch Win entirely, in 1997/8, and since then in my (biz consulting)

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2013-06-07 Thread Christopher Chan
If your purpose is to provide a distribution with an up to date illumos at its core and the applications everybody expects on desk/lap-tops easily installable, then I consider your work as a really important and I would be ready helping you to live of it. But make it possible to easily

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Heinrich van Riel [mailto:heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com] I will post my findings, but might take some time to fix the network in time and they will have to deal with 1Gbps for the storage. The request is to run ~90 VMs on 8 servers connected. With 90 VM's on 8 servers, being served ZFS

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2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
On 06/07/2013 06:36 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: If your purpose is to provide a distribution with an up to date illumos at its core and the applications everybody expects on desk/lap-tops easily installable, then I consider your work as a really important and I would be ready helping you to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-06-07 14:09, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Heinrich van Riel [mailto:heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com] I will post my findings, but might take some time to fix the network in time and they will have to deal with 1Gbps for the storage. The request is to run ~90 VMs on 8 servers

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2013-06-07 Thread Marc Lobelle
On 7/06/13 12:36, Christopher Chan wrote: If your purpose is to provide a distribution with an up to date illumos at its core and the applications everybody expects on desk/lap-tops easily installable, then I consider your work as a really important and I would be ready helping you to live

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] asterisk, was Re: [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Marc Lobelle
On 7/06/13 15:42, Dave McGuire wrote: On 06/07/2013 06:36 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: If your purpose is to provide a distribution with an up to date illumos at its core and the applications everybody expects on desk/lap-tops easily installable, then I consider your work as a really important

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] With 90 VM's on 8 servers, being served ZFS iscsi storage by 4x 1Gb ethernet in LACP, you're really not going to care about any one VM being able to go above 1Gbit. Because it's going to be so busy all the time, that the 4 LACP bonded ports

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2013-06-07 Thread ken mays
Hi Marc, OpenSXCE is related to the original OpenSXDE distribution.  Server and desktop applications are well supported and available with the distro (or through third-party ISVs like OpenCSW). The community is not split, nor at real war, nor leaving behind the Illumos project. DilOS (see

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2013-06-07 Thread jason matthews
On Jun 6, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: That's great Dave. Over here, the move has been to not Linux but to Unix in the form of Mac OS X. Same in the SF Bay area. Even the linux ditto heads are willing to run OSX.

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2013-06-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 13-06-07 09:09 AM, ken mays wrote: OpenSXCE provides the most recent snapshot release of the Illumos kernel at this time (i.e. 2-4 weeks). The distro also works on nearly all of the SPARC/x86_64 servers that worked with the OpenSolaris distribution. Hi Ken. Are you saying your plan here

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2013-06-07 Thread Lou Picciano
Hello Ken! It's one of the little-realized advantages of reading this list that one might be directed to videos, and even the Configurator tool, for the Koenigsegg Agera R (!!) Yet another cool toy I will probably never own! (Regards to All!) Lou Picciano - Original Message -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Thank you for all the information. Ordered the SAS SSD. I somewhat got tired of iscsi and the networking stuff around it and went to good ol FC. Some hypervisors will still use iSCSI. Speed is ok One sec apart cloning 150GB vm from a datastore on EMC to OI. alloc free read write read write

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2013-06-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
But it is of paramount importance to those running desktops! Remember that Linux became popular because it is reliable alternative to both Windows and MacOS as a desktop system. Excuse me? Linux on the desktop has been and still is a goal. Maybe with  A goal? It is already there!

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Jim Klimov
Comment below On 2013-06-07 20:42, Heinrich van Riel wrote: One sec apart cloning 150GB vm from a datastore on EMC to OI. alloc free read write read write - - - - - - 309G 54.2T 81 48 452K 1.34M 309G 54.2T 0 8.17K 0 258M 310G 54.2T 0 16.3K 0 510M 310G 54.2T 0 0 0 0 310G

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2013-06-07 Thread Jerry Kemp
Hello Dave, Thanks for sharing your story. Are you/were you responsible for the work at http://www.solarisvoip.com/ Jerry On 06/ 7/13 08:42 AM, Dave McGuire wrote: I worked as a contractor for Digium several years ago, with the task of porting Asterisk to Solaris on SPARC using Sun

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2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
On 06/07/2013 04:07 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: Thanks for sharing your story. Are you/were you responsible for the work at http://www.solarisvoip.com/ No, I had nothing at all to do with that. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] WD reds any good for ZFS RAIDZ pools?

2013-06-07 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 6/5/2013 6:05 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: I'm about to source parts for my home server's array, and am looking at WD red 3TB HDD's, any feedback or war stories on these drives? If I get 3 x 3TB a RAIDz array would give me ~6TB, which should keep me going for a few years and not run me out of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
In the debug info I see 1000's of the following events: FROM STMF:0149225: abort_task_offline called for LPORT: lport abort timed out FROM STMF:0149225: abort_task_offline called for LPORT: lport abort timed out FROM STMF:0149225: abort_task_offline called for LPORT: lport abort timed out FROM

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2013-06-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, June 08, 2013 02:54 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: But it is of paramount importance to those running desktops! Remember that Linux became popular because it is reliable alternative to both Windows and MacOS as a desktop system. Excuse me? Linux on the desktop has been and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] WD reds any good for ZFS RAIDZ pools?

2013-06-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, June 08, 2013 05:23 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote: For these large drives, raidz2 is recommended, as the likelihood of a second drive failure during a rebuild starts to get pretty high. What's wrong with striped mirrors? raidz2 does not like random i/o. I happen to run raidz2 and

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2013-06-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, June 08, 2013 07:40 AM, Dave McGuire wrote: On 06/07/2013 07:36 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: But it is of paramount importance to those running desktops! Remember that Linux became popular because it is reliable alternative to both Windows and MacOS as a desktop system.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-07 Thread Dave McGuire
On 06/07/2013 07:59 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: But it is of paramount importance to those running desktops! Remember that Linux became popular because it is reliable alternative to both Windows and MacOS as a desktop system. Excuse me? Linux on the desktop has been and still is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-07 Thread Heinrich van Riel
New card, different PCI-E slot (removed the other one) different FC switch (same model with same code) older hba firmware (2.72a2) = same result. On the setting changes when it boots it complains about this option, does not exist: szfs_txg_synctime The changes still allowed for a constant write,