Re: [zfs-discuss] S11 vs illumos zfs compatiblity

2012-01-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 12/28/11 06:27, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Nico Williamsn...@cryptonector.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Frank Cusackfr...@linetwo.net wrote: So with a de facto fork (illumos) now in place, is it

[zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
Hello. I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber environment. This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency. Now that Fiber is damn expensive and for one thing, we do not need the fiber connection as every client connects with IP. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Christopher Hearn
On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: Hello. I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber environment. This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency. Now that Fiber is damn expensive and for one thing, we do not need

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Frank Lahm
2012/1/3 Christopher Hearn christopher.he...@cchmc.org: On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: Hello. I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber environment. This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency. Now that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 12U includwd SAS controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an LSI card and an external storage chassis like those available from Promise and others. -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] reminder: illumos meetup next Tuesday, January 10

2012-01-03 Thread Deirdre Straughan
http://www.meetup.com/illumos-User-Group/events/41665962/ January's meeting will feature a report from Matt Ahrens of the ZFS Working Group about what's new and what's coming in ZFS, with time for discussion about other topics of interest to the community. Pizza and beer (and soft drinks) will

[zfs-discuss] arc_no_grow is set to 1 and never set back to 0

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Radig
Hello. I have a Solaris 11/11 x86 box (which I migrated from SolEx 11/10 a couple of weeks ago). Without no obvious reason (at least for me), after an uptime of 1 to 2 days (observed 3 times now) Solaris sets arc_no_grow to 1 and then never sets it back to 0. ARC is being shrunk to less than

Re: [zfs-discuss] arc_no_grow is set to 1 and never set back to 0

2012-01-03 Thread Tomas Forsman
On 03 January, 2012 - Peter Radig sent me these 3,5K bytes: Hello. I have a Solaris 11/11 x86 box (which I migrated from SolEx 11/10 a couple of weeks ago). Without no obvious reason (at least for me), after an uptime of 1 to 2 days (observed 3 times now) Solaris sets arc_no_grow to 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] arc_no_grow is set to 1 and never set back to 0

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Radig
Tomas, Yup, same here. free0 mem_inuse 16162750464 mem_total 17171480576 Page SummaryPagesMB %Tot Kernel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Jan 3 at 8:03, Gary Driggs wrote: I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 12U includwd SAS controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an LSI card and an external storage chassis like those available from Promise and others. That was what got us with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org wrote: On Tue, Jan  3 at  8:03, Gary Driggs wrote: I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 12U includwd SAS controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an LSI card and an external storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: Supposedly the H200/H700 cards are just their name for the 6gbit LSI SAS cards, but I haven't tested them personally. They might use the same chipset but their firmware usually doesn't support JBOD. Unless they've changed in the last couple