RE: [smartos-discuss] Smart OS Installation for home lab

2016-06-02 Thread the outsider
ut AVX for people on oder/test hardware On Jun 1, 2016, at 22:06, the outsider <openindi...@out-side.nl <mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl> > wrote: Since he is using an R610 i urge to look at the FiFo HCL, since you need to have a processor with AVX capabilities. I assume the

RE: [smartos-discuss] Smart OS Installation for home lab

2016-06-01 Thread the outsider
Since he is using an R610 i urge to look at the FiFo HCL, since you need to have a processor with AVX capabilities. I assume the R610 will not have a processor with AVX. Van: Heinz Nikolaus Gies [mailto:he...@licenser.net] Verzonden: woensdag 1 juni 2016 20:38 Aan: SmartOs Discuss

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
] HELP! Update gone bad? On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:41 PM, the outsider <openindi...@out-side.nl <mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl> > wrote: It seems to work well, but when I rebooted my server from USB it starts asking all questions like it was a new installation. Drop down to t

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
Crap! The cache device seems to miss for some reason. Van: the outsider [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl] Verzonden: woensdag 27 januari 2016 23:55 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp: RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad? Ok, sorry for this speedy post. But I seem

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
Ok, i am scre*** I had created a log device for my zones pool also i see. Van: the outsider [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl] Verzonden: donderdag 28 januari 2016 0:09 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp: RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad? I created a slice

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
That is correct (at least i thought the same) The zones pool seems to imported OK. But it is DEGRADED. It is save to remove the log and cache? And what is best practice? And now I have it back, where do I go now? Do I need to rewrite /usb? Van: Jorge Schrauwen

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
Ok, i removed the log and cache device and the pool is healthy again Where to go now? Sorry for my hasty mails, but I have quite some important data on my drives and it’s 0:33 in the night. I need to wake up at 7:00 tomorrow ;-) I appreciate all help very much. Van: the outsider

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
For some reason c2d0p3 and c2d0p2 are not available tot the zones zpool. But I can see them in /dev/dsk/ What is the best way to restore them? Can I do “zpool online c2d0p3” ? Van: the outsider [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl] Verzonden: donderdag 28 januari 2016 0:14 Aan: smartos

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
This is what format says about the SSD drive. I hate myself for doing things too fast. Van: the outsider [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl] Verzonden: donderdag 28 januari 2016 0:12 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp: RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad? Ok, i am

RE: [smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:41 PM, the outsider <openindi...@out-side.nl <mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl> > wrote: It seems to work well, but when I rebooted my server from USB it starts asking all questions like it was a new installation. Drop down to the shell, ^D I believe, or yo

[smartos-discuss] Update gone bad, the Aftermath

2016-01-28 Thread the outsider
Dear all, Many thanks to all that helped yesterday and tonight for restoring my server. Everything works fine now, but I have some unanswered questions. Maybe someone can shed some light on this. Since I ran into trouble after updating my USB drive with the latest SmartOS version some

RE: [smartos-discuss] Update gone bad, the Aftermath

2016-02-02 Thread the outsider
I have tested the Kingston HyperX Predator SSD HHHL PCIe 240GB on SmartOS. It was detected and usable without any problem. It can be a superfast device for caching and log device. But unfortunality my server (HP) increases the fan speed as soon as something is plugged into the PCIe slots so I

RE: [smartos-discuss] lx (centos 6) + postfix network_interfaces

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
Just out of curiosity. Why do you use a LX zone for postfix. Any special reason for that? -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter [mailto:j...@internetx.com] Verzonden: woensdag 27 januari 2016 17:17 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp:

RE: [smartos-discuss] lx (centos 6) + postfix network_interfaces

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
I'm sorry. I haven't tested Postfix on SmartOS. I use Communigate but had to cheat a little. Since it has only solaris PKG format installer I first installed it on OpenIndiana and copied all files to SmartOS. It runs very well. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Ian Collins

[smartos-discuss] HELP! Update gone bad?

2016-01-27 Thread the outsider
I tried to update my SmartOS install to the latest version. It seems to work well, but when I rebooted my server from USB it starts asking all questions like it was a new installation. What must I do Can I proceed the questionary? Please help

RE: [smartos-discuss] passing SSH keys to the LX brand zone

2016-02-24 Thread the outsider
I think you followed the wrong manual. You only need to add "customer_metadata": { "root_authorized_keys": "ssh-rsa [put here your putty public key] rsa-key-20160219" } Your Putty public key file will look like: BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY Comment: "rsa-key-20160107"

RE: [smartos-discuss] zfs: some advice on server configuration

2016-01-21 Thread the outsider
capacity operationsbandwidth poolalloc free read write read write -- - - - - - - zones477G 3.16T 0 35 9.58K 250K mirror 239G 1.58T 0 17 4.84K 123K c0t1d0 - - 0 8 2.50K

RE: [smartos-discuss] zfs: some advice on server configuration

2016-01-22 Thread the outsider
4TB disks in SAS or SATA? (there are no SAS 4TB drives afaik) How big is the storage that you REALLY need to serve this high read/write speeds to? Is it database data? Is it memory based storage (java cache? ) https://jsfiddle.net/Biduleohm/paq5u7z5/1/embedded/result/ can help you decide how

RE: [smartos-discuss] zfs_arc_max setting for SmartOS

2016-03-19 Thread the outsider
ZFS has a nifty feature that it ALWAYS consumes almost ALL remaining free memory. But… it will reduce memory consumption if anything else needs it. Are you sure that your VM’s run on SWAP memory? How much RAM do you have? how big is your zonepool? How many HD’s do you use in your

RE: [smartos-discuss] Adding a new disk - too hard :(

2016-03-08 Thread the outsider
Are you sure you can't see the device with "format"? Please reply the "format" output. It should show the device as something like c1t1d0 or something. Van: David Preece [mailto:da...@zedkep.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 8 maart 2016 4:47 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp:

RE: [smartos-discuss] Dedicated Hosting Options

2016-03-23 Thread the outsider
We run our systems from https://www.xs4all.nl/colocation/ They have an excellent network and perfect data centers. Some marketing idiot forgot to create an English page for their colocation, but Google translate might help. They are one of the few that offer 1/3 rackspace, which gives you

[smartos-discuss] setting / changing memory to zone

2016-04-29 Thread the outsider
I have a zone that is running a java webserver and this webserver stalls out of nowhere. At a certain point in time ai have altered the amount of memory that this zone can use but I think I made a mistake. I have increased the amount of RAM, but now I see that there are more settings that

[smartos-discuss] force zone shutdown

2016-05-24 Thread the outsider
We benchmarked our webserver that is running in a zone and this gave of course an extreme load on the zone. But even after shutting down the JAVA process of the webserver we cannot reboot the zone. I tried "init 6" from within the zone and "vmadm halt {zoneid} " from the global zone but

RE: [smartos-discuss] setting / changing memory to zone

2016-05-01 Thread the outsider
. System seems to run correct now. For the record: Host : HP DL360G8 Processors: 2x 6 core RAM: 72 GB -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Joshua M. Clulow [mailto:j...@sysmgr.org] Verzonden: zaterdag 30 april 2016 5:53 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp: Re: [smartos-discuss] set

RE: [smartos-discuss] Easy way to clone KVM

2016-05-06 Thread the outsider
Search “Smartos snapshot daily” or “Solaris ZFS backup” http://www.daveeddy.com/2015/12/05/automatic-zfs-snapshots-and-backups/ Van: Rupinder Singh Chugh [mailto:rschug...@gmail.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 6 mei 2016 10:30 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp: Re:

RE: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS base 16.4.1, minimal 16.4.1 and pkgbuild 16.4.1 images now available

2017-02-07 Thread the outsider
Hi, I once tried to update my SmartoS installation, dating joyent_20151210T194528Z to a newer version but it failed. I have quite some data stored on this server but for some new virtual machines I need to update the platform. I found the update script on

[smartos-discuss] how to block init 6 on global zone

2016-09-29 Thread the outsider
It would be nice to have shutdown and/or reboot functions on the global zone protected with a yes/no option. It is just something to make the system fool proof, where sender considers himself foolish Yesterday I needed to reboot a couple of zones but before that I needed to shutdown some

RE: [smartos-discuss] Additional network interface in global zone

2016-11-03 Thread the outsider
Additional question to this thread: 1. What names are allowed for additional nics? 2. If the additional doesn’t need an IP-address in the Global zone, how to set that up? 3. If I name this additional nic “test” , what name do I need to use for the zone setup? “test” or

RE: [smartos-discuss] Additional network interface in global zone

2016-11-03 Thread the outsider
with MAC address fc:15:b4:0f:2f:59 add the following to /usbkey/config test_nic=fc:15:b4:0f:2f:59 test0_ip=dhcp test0_netmask=... In the zone config json file you can use : "nics": [ { "nic_tag": "test", "ip": "dhcp" } ]

[smartos-discuss] slow SSH between 2 split zones

2016-11-03 Thread the outsider
I have created 2 zones with the goal to stress a network component. This network component has 4 Gb nics and an embedded DHCP server. My idea was to create the two zones with their own nics so all traffic that flows between the 2 zones will need to pass this network device. So I added 2

RE: [smartos-discuss] UUID is already not 'running' (currently: shutting_down)

2016-12-08 Thread the outsider
, 2016 at 9:50 AM, the outsider <openindi...@out-side.nl <mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl> > wrote: I tied to reboot a zone, but after a while it didn’t seem to reboot. So I did reboot from within the zone. But after almost half an hour the zone is still in shutting down state and can’

[smartos-discuss] percona-server-5.7.14 DB wrong DB initialisation

2016-12-14 Thread the outsider
The Percona MySQL server installation uses the wrong database initialisation which results in an unusable database system, since no root password is generated. The installer generates the following warning: --bootstrap is deprecated. Please consider using --initialize instead While it

[smartos-discuss] net-snmp and disks (directories)

2016-12-14 Thread the outsider
Has anyone managed to get net-snmp running in such a way that one can observe the disk-usage of a zone's directory? I want to observe the disk usage of the /opt directory since that is the dir where all my data is stored, but I can't get net-snmp to show me the usage. When I do df -h

[smartos-discuss] server redundancy

2017-01-05 Thread the outsider
How do you guys solve server redundancy? I mean, what is the best way to make sure that all zones on a particular piece of hardware can be started on a second piece of hardware when the first one fails or needs maintenance? I found a script (zrep) to transport the zone data from server 1 to

[smartos-discuss] zpool repair fails

2017-07-28 Thread the outsider
I have 2 SmartOS servers and suddenly they both had a faulty drive. Nothing was damaged, since the zones pool has 2 spares and it took one of the spares to replace the faulty drive. But.. We have exchanged the faulty drives and we want to have a healthy pool of course. And there I fail

RE: [smartos-discuss] Proposed Experimental Setup

2017-08-03 Thread the outsider
Welcome at the SmartOS club !  No matter what or how you decide (SDC/TDC/ pure SmartOS) I would strongly suggest that you use a hardware VPN solution. I always use Cisco ASA5512 in the front of our servers. Although it costs approx. € 2500,- including licenses and setup costs, I am

RE: [smartos-discuss] Newbie to SmartOS

2017-08-04 Thread the outsider
Or just start with just SmartOS and http://datasets.at SmartOS is quite easy to learn, you can always search for Solaris and the things you want, because there is great similarity. (although some specifics are completely different) But I have servers running 25 SmartOS zones on HP G7 servers

RE: [smartos-discuss] zpool repair fails

2017-08-04 Thread the outsider
Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp: Re: [smartos-discuss] zpool repair fails The replace is already done. You need to detach the old disk from the pool: zpool detach zones 4055832659617835295 -Chip On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:58 AM, the outsider <openindi...@out-s

RE: [smartos-discuss] hardware selection question

2017-08-06 Thread the outsider
If you want to test / play or use Project FiFo you need at least E-xxx Xeon processors since FiFo needs the special embedded encryption instruction (AVX?) set. I always order the idrac advanced or the HP Ilo professional license. It happened twice in my life that I lost contact with the global

RE: [smartos-discuss] vmadm create times out (but zone eventually starts) on DL360g6

2017-08-19 Thread the outsider
I have seen this "slow" zone creation behavior before. It happened in the following cases: * The gateway that is presented to the zone does not exist * The gateway is unreachable * You specify a MAC address that has already been used in the network During zone build the

RE: [smartos-discuss] Problems with low memory (lx zones)

2017-06-22 Thread the outsider
Did you alter the amount of memory assigned to the zone at some point? And if yes how did you do that? I have seen the same behavior after changing the amount of memory (virtual RAM) to an LX zone. You need to do more than just assign more “memory”.

[smartos-discuss] KVM zone, how the .... can i set the disksize

2017-06-19 Thread the outsider
I try to get ubuntu installed with a disksize of 300GB but I always end up with a Ubuntu system that has only 10GB disksize. I am lost ;-( Google isn't my friend in this matter since it returns almost only Solaris hits. --- smartos-discuss

RE: [smartos-discuss] KVM zone, how the .... can i set the disksize

2017-06-19 Thread the outsider
Van: Sebastien Perreault [mailto:sperrea...@alesium.net] Verzonden: maandag 19 juni 2017 22:29 Aan: smartos-discuss <smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org> Onderwerp: Re: [smartos-discuss] KVM zone, how the can i set the disksize Hi, Can you share your JSON file and do a fdisk

[smartos-discuss] DNS server in zone

2017-05-30 Thread the outsider
I try to get DNSMASQ running inside a plain SmartOS zone with 3 nics. Each nic is connected to a switchport and each switchport has its own VLAN defined. There is no VLAN config on SmartOS , nor on the zone itself. These nics are defined as follows: [ { "interface":

RE: [smartos-discuss] DNS server in zone

2017-05-30 Thread the outsider
And how do i do that ? Problem is that helpfiles and most forums show different ways to “bind” and I am lost Van: Jorge Schrauwen [mailto:sjorge...@blackdot.be] Verzonden: dinsdag 30 mei 2017 15:37 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org CC: the outsider <openindi...@out-side

RE: [smartos-discuss] DNS server in zone

2017-05-30 Thread the outsider
.smartos.pool.ntp.org compute_node_ntp_hosts=192.168.120.4 hostname=PR-ZWS01 Van: Jorge Schrauwen [mailto:sjorge...@blackdot.be] Verzonden: dinsdag 30 mei 2017 16:33 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org CC: 'the outsider' <openindi...@out-side.nl> Onderwerp: Re: [smartos-discus

RE: [smartos-discuss] DNS server in zone

2017-05-30 Thread the outsider
Van: Humberto Ramirez [mailto:harl2...@gmail.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 30 mei 2017 15:19 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Onderwerp: Re: [smartos-discuss] DNS server in zone How does your dnsmasq.conf looks? On May 30, 2017 8:33 AM, "the outsider" <openi

[smartos-discuss] Linux VM set additional route

2017-06-04 Thread the outsider
I have a VM that has two nics. Nic 1 is primary and has the default gateway for most routes But nic2 needs to be gateway for a special subnet that is not reachable via nic 1. I tried to set the route via the standard linux way, but that is blocked. route add -net 192.168.132.0/24 gw

RE: [smartos-discuss] Etherstub and vnics for KVM machines

2017-06-04 Thread the outsider
If you have more than 1 netwerkconnection (Nic) than my way of work is the following: Step 1: list all available network cards in the system which are detected by SmartOS dladm show-phys -m This will show all nics with their unique MAC address. Now there must be some command to see

RE: [smartos-discuss] DNS server in zone

2017-05-30 Thread the outsider
in the future with managing the different dhcp pools and different logons, but for now I am happy. I lost to much time on this. Van: the outsider [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl] Verzonden: dinsdag 30 mei 2017 17:29 Aan: 'Jorge Schrauwen' <sjorge...@blackdot.be>; smartos-d

RE: [smartos-discuss] Invitation to the SmartOS/OmniOS/OI/illumos user meeting at Erlangen, Germany on October 12

2017-09-15 Thread the outsider
Is in the neighborhood of Meppen (D) an Idea? It is also reachable by train as far as I know. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Toens Bueker [mailto:toens.bue...@lists0903.nurfuerspam.neuroserve.de] Verzonden: vrijdag 15 september 2017 11:53 Aan: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org CC:

RE: [smartos-discuss] RFD 121 bhyve brand

2018-01-14 Thread the outsider
Why do you want to create a KVM on a Solaris server or any other Linux server when you are in need of excellent network performance? Why not just use a Solaris / SmartOS zone? This sounds to me as “We have a Tesla, but to extend the range we want to develop something that can burn fuels

RE: [smartos-discuss] LX_DEBUG lets crash SmartOS

2018-03-11 Thread the outsider
Have you changed the amount of RAM for the VM after deploying it? I have seen LX zones crash before for this reason. I don’t know why but you must also update the SHM memory vmadm update {zonename} max_shm_memory=5120 max_physical_memory=5120 max_locked_memory=5120 swap=5120

[smartos-discuss] mysql-cluster-7.4.12nb1 messes up

2018-07-19 Thread the outsider
I spend quite some time to change the original config of my MySQL cluster and found out that the installation is quite a mess. 1. The data dir is /var/mysql for all nodes with a subdir with the number of the server. So managementnode with ID 1 has a subdir of /var/mysql/1/ 2. The

RE: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard?

2018-07-23 Thread the outsider
I once installed and ran SmartOS for 3 weeks on this device: http://www.lannerinc.com/products/industrial-communication-platforms/industrial-cyber-security-box-pc/lec-6032 Installed 2 zones, 1 with MySQL and 1 with a JAVA webserver. Worked quite nice, but project was cancelled by our customer.

RE: [smartos-discuss] Smartos bhyve support on AMD Sun Fire X4140

2018-07-07 Thread the outsider
??? Since when is SmartOS capable of running on a X4140? I tried it once a year ago and at that time it failed as far as I can remember. I dumped all my X4140’s and replaced them by HP servers for that reason. (although that wasn’t bad since the X4140 consumes a lot of energy) Van: