Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread James Relph
Hi Ed, Chip, Thanks for the responses, it was basically to see whether people had been having any compatibility issues with Oi as backend storage. We've seen datastore disconnects in the ESXi hosts over both iSCSI and NFS, and it seemed odd that there'd be the same problems across both

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-11 11:13, James Relph wrote: Hi Ed, Chip, Thanks for the responses, it was basically to see whether people had been having any compatibility issues with Oi as backend storage. We've seen datastore disconnects in the ESXi hosts over both iSCSI and NFS, and it seemed odd that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread James Relph
I'll pass that on to someone actually, thanks, although would we lose pings with that (had pings running to test for a network issue and never had packet loss)? It's a bit of a puzzler! James. Sent from my iPhone On 11 Aug 2013, at 10:43, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-11 16:59, James Relph wrote: I'll pass that on to someone actually, thanks, although would we lose pings with that (had pings running to test for a network issue and never had packet loss)? It's a bit of a puzzler! Also, does your host use ipfilter to filter and/or NAT access to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 11, 2013, at 9:59 AM, James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk wrote: Nope, dedicated physical 10Gb network for iSCSI/NFS traffic, with 4x 10Gb links (in an LACP bond) per device. Should be pretty solid really. If I recall correctly, you can set LACP parameters that determine how fast the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread James Relph
If I recall correctly, you can set LACP parameters that determine how fast the switch-over occurs between ports, the interval at which the interfaces send LACP packets, and more. These can be set on either the OS or switch side depending on the vendor. So if you've determined that there is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Gary
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:57 AM, James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk wrote: If it was an LACP issue (ports dropping etc.) causing iSCSI issues, wouldn't we see dropped packets at the same time? The protocol calls for strict ordering of packets so one would think ICMP would be useful in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-11 19:57, James Relph wrote: If I recall correctly, you can set LACP parameters that determine how fast the switch-over occurs between ports, the interval at which the I'll have to have a look, but the thing is that we were seeing these datastore drops while at the same time we

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Bentley, Dain
Been using it on as a datastore for both my vmware and hyper-v clusters. No complaints, great performance and reliability. I'm using iSCSI. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 10, 2013, at 6:12 AM, James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk wrote: Hi all, Is anybody using Oi as a data store for