Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Karl Wagner
On 2012-11-08 17:49, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [1] [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org [2]] On Behalf Of Karl Wagner I am just wondering why you export the ZFS system through NFS? I have had much better

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:57:21AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Yes you can, with the help of Dell, install OMSA to get the web interface to manage the PERC. But it's a pain, and there is no equivalent option for most HBA's. Specifcally, on my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com] I have to admit Ned's (what do I call you?)idea is interesting. I may give it a try... Yup, officially Edward, most people call me Ned. I contributed to the OI VirtualBox instructions. See here: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/VirtualBox

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: Karl Wagner [mailto:k...@mouse-hole.com] If I was doing this now, I would probably use the ZFS aware OS bare metal, but I still think I would use iSCSI to export the ZVols (mainly due to the ability to use it across a real network, hence allowing guests to be migrated simply) Yes,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:57:21AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Yes you can, with the help of Dell, install OMSA to get the web

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-09 16:14, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: Karl Wagner [mailto:k...@mouse-hole.com] If I was doing this now, I would probably use the ZFS aware OS bare metal, but I still think I would use iSCSI to export the ZVols (mainly due to the ability to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-09 16:11, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com] I have to admit Ned's (what do I call you?)idea is interesting. I may give it a try... Yup, officially Edward, most people call me Ned. I contributed to

[zfs-discuss] Forcing ZFS options

2012-11-09 Thread Jim Klimov
There are times when ZFS options can not be applied at the moment, i.e. changing desired mountpoints of active filesystems (or setting a mountpoint over a filesystem location that is currently not empty). Such attempts now bail out with messages like: cannot unmount '/var/adm': Device busy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Forcing ZFS options

2012-11-09 Thread Gregg Wonderly
Do you move the pools between machines, or just on the same physical machine? Could you just use symlinks from the new root to the old root so that the names work until you can reboot? It might be more practical to always use symlinks if you do a lot of moving things around, and then you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Forcing ZFS options

2012-11-09 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-09 18:06, Gregg Wonderly wrote: Do you move the pools between machines, or just on the same physical machine? Could you just use symlinks from the new root to the old root so that the names work until you can reboot? It might be more practical to always use symlinks if you do a

[zfs-discuss] IBMsdd to MPXIO

2012-11-09 Thread Morris Hooten
I have zpools now that consist of vpaths. I'm exporting the zpool and want to import on a server using mpxio. Will zfs care or will it see the zpool although the multipathing driver has changed? I'm assuming not.___ zfs-discuss mailing list