Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Gregory Durham
copy-on-write. - Reply message - From: Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com To: Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 10:56 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Gregory Durham

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Gregory Durham
rewrites require copy-on-write. - Reply message - From: Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com To: Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 10:56 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:45

[zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-09 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello, We just purchased two of the sc847e26-rjbod1 units to be used in a storage environment running Solaris 11 express. We are using Hitachi HUA723020ALA640 6 gb/s drives with an LSI SAS 9200-8e hba. We are not using failover/redundancy. Meaning that one port of the hba goes to the primary

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-10 Thread Gregory Durham
Hey Ed, Thanks for the comment, I have been thinking along the lines of the same thing, I am going to continue to try to use bacula but we will see. Out of curiosity, what version of netbackup are you using? I would love to feel pretty well covered haha. Thanks a lot! Greg On Wed, Mar 10, 2010

[zfs-discuss] backup zpool to tape

2010-03-09 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello all, I need to backup some zpools to tape. I currently have two servers, for the purpose of this conversation we will call them server1 and server2 respectively. Server1, has several zpools which are replicated to a single zpool on server2 through a zfs send/recv script. This part works

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-08 Thread Gregory Durham
on top of other pools can cause the system to deadlock or panic. This kind of configuration is just not supported or recommended at this time. Thanks, Cindy On 03/05/10 17:38, Gregory Durham wrote: Great...will using lofiadm still cause this issue? either by using mkfile or by using

[zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-05 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello all, I am using Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_129 I have a quick question. I have created a zpool on a sparse file, for instance: zpool create stage c10d0s0 mount it to /media/stage mkfile -n 500GB /media/stage/disks/disk.img zpool create zfsStage /media/stage/disks/disk.img I want to be able to

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool on sparse files

2010-03-05 Thread Gregory Durham
/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6929751 Currently, building a pool from files is not fully supported. Thanks, Cindy On 03/05/10 16:15, Gregory Durham wrote: Hello all, I am using Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_129 I have a quick question. I have created a zpool on a sparse file, for instance: zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-27 Thread Gregory Durham
to zfs send to two destination simultaneously? Or am I stuck. Any pointers would be great! I am using OpenSolaris snv_129 and the disks are sata wd 1tb 7200rpm disks. Thanks All! Greg On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.comwrote: Well I guess I am glad I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] backing this up

2010-01-27 Thread Gregory Durham
, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:01:36PM -0800, Gregory Durham wrote: Hello All, I read through the attached threads and found a solution by a poster and decided to try it. That may have been mine - good to know it helped, or at least started to. The solution was to use 3 files (in my case I made them

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-19 Thread Gregory Durham
Thank you so much Fajar, You have been incredibly helpful! I will do as you said I am just glad I have not been going down the wrong path! Thanks, Greg On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha fa...@fajar.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-14 Thread Gregory Durham
snapshotting on the ESXi server? Thanks for all the helpful information! Greg On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.comwrote: Haha, Yeah that's tomorrow, I have a test vm I will be testing on. I shall report back! Thank you all! On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Fajar

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Gregory Durham
Tim, iSCSI was a design descision at the time. Performance was key and I wanted to utilize being able to hand a LUN on the SAN to esxi, and use it as a raw disk in physical compatibility mode...however what this has done is that I can no longer take snapshots on the esxi server and must rely on

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Gregory Durham
Arnaud, The virtual machines coming up as if they were on is the least of my worries, my biggest worry is keeping the filesystems of the vms alive i.e. not corrupt. I have all of my virtual machines set up with raw LUNs in physical compatibility mode. This has increased performance but sadly at

Re: [zfs-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-13 Thread Gregory Durham
Haha, Yeah that's tomorrow, I have a test vm I will be testing on. I shall report back! Thank you all! On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha fa...@fajar.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com wrote: Arnaud, The virtual machines