[smartos-discuss] KPTI testing help wanted

Hi all, We're at the stage with the illumos/SmartOS KPTI (Meltdown mitigation) work now that we would like to solicit help with testing from the community. So for those keen to help out with some testing, you can find links to a platform image with KPTI (and full DEBUG assertions) below. This is

Re: [smartos-discuss] HA compute node question

Jussi Sallinen wrote: > Yeah, SDC/Triton is opinionated and for example it doesn't involve shared > storage (eg. vSAN) as primary storage: > https://github.com/joyent/triton#design-principles > "A VM's primary storage should be local disk, not over the network -- this > avoids

Re: [smartos-discuss] HA compute node question

On 30/01/2018 2.35, Jeremy wrote: Does sdc have any HA?  For example, if you make a new usb with current updates, do you need to bring the whole node down with all VMs just to get the updates, or is there a better approach. a good way of handling HA on Triton is to use replication

Re: [smartos-discuss] HA compute node question

Yeah, SDC/Triton is opinionated and for example it doesn't involve shared storage (eg. vSAN) as primary storage: https://github.com/joyent/triton#design-principles "A VM's primary storage should be local disk, not over the network -- this avoids difficult to debug performance pathologies."

Re: [smartos-discuss] HA compute node question

I wouldn't call your thinking "incorrect", but it is a different paradigm from VMWare/Hyper-V and similar. SDC/Triton is "opinionated" that HA/Redundancy/etc should be at the application layer, which aligns well with the increasingly prevailing "modern" design pattern of so-called

Re: [smartos-discuss] softether vpn

Hi Jason, Thanks for the tip about libdlpi… the existing approach seems a little brittle so I’ll have a look at this. As for the vnic protection flags, I’ve definitely been able to save the “allow_unflitered_promisc” option using vmadm, but it doesn’t seem to take effect, despite being

Re: [smartos-discuss] softether vpn

For the SoftEther code changes, I’d suggest looking into libdlpi(3DLPI). It’ll take care of most of the DLPI details for you (including handling both style 1 and style 2 devices — it sounds like it can’t handle style 1 devices — e.g. /dev/net0), it’s also something that’s been around since Solaris

[smartos-discuss] HA compute node question

I have been looking in the docs for HA config pertaining to compute nodes. Perhaps it is my thinking which is incorrect, as I am coming from a vmware way of thinking. Does sdc have any HA? For example, if you make a new usb with current updates, do you need to bring the whole node down with all

Re: [smartos-discuss] softether vpn

Good afternoon all, I've come to a temporary solution to the problem I've been having with softether: First, softether uses DLPI to access the network, and there are 2 ways to do attach to an interface. One involves opening the root node of a network device (like /dev/bnx) and then attaching