Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-15 Thread Tiernan OToole
Thanks for the info. I am planning g the install this weekend, between formula one and other hardware upgrades... fingers crossed it works! On 14 Mar 2013 09:19, Heiko L. h.lehm...@hs-lausitz.de wrote: support for VT, but nothing for AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont be using XEN,

[zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-11 Thread Tiernan OToole
I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction... I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and has 2 single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks... But, I dont know what to install on it... I was thinking of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-11 Thread Tiernan OToole
to tell you the truth, i dont really need the virtualization stuff... Zones sounds interesting, since it seems to be ligher weight than Xen or anything like that... On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Tiernan OToole wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Tiernan OToole
Thanks all! I will check out FreeNAS and see what it can do... I will also check my RAID Card and see if it can work with JBOD... fingers crossed... The machine has a couple internal SATA ports (think there are 2, could be 4) so i was thinking of using those for boot disks and SSDs later... As a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Tiernan OToole
Thanks again lads. I will take all that info into advice, and will join that new group also! Thanks again! --Tiernan On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Tiernan OToole lsmart...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks all! I will check out

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-25 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning all. My home NAS died over the weekend, and it leaves me with a lot of spare drives (5 2Tb and 3 1Tb disks). I have a Dell Poweredge 2900 Server sitting in the house, which has not been doing much over the last while (bought it a few years back with the intent of using it as a

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

2012-11-07 Thread Tiernan OToole
Morning all... I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB drives, but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and so far everything is going ok... I have the 2 drives as standard data stores... But i am paranoid... So, i installed Nexenta as a VM,

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

2012-11-07 Thread Tiernan OToole
... Thanks again! --Tiernan On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:58:04PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 11/07/2012 12:39 PM, Tiernan OToole wrote: Morning all... I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-08 Thread Tiernan OToole
Of Tiernan OToole I am in the process of planning a system which will have 2 ZFS servers, one on site, one off site. The on site server will be used by workstations and servers in house, and most of that will stay in house. There will, however, be data i want backed up somewhere else, which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-08 Thread Tiernan OToole
Cool beans lads. Thanks! On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 10/08/12 20:08, Tiernan OToole wrote: Ok, so, after reading a bit more of this discussion and after playing around at the weekend, i have a couple of questions to ask... 1: Do my pools need

[zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-05 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning. I am in the process of planning a system which will have 2 ZFS servers, one on site, one off site. The on site server will be used by workstations and servers in house, and most of that will stay in house. There will, however, be data i want backed up somewhere else, which is where

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-05 Thread Tiernan OToole
an incremental one? maybe incremental daily, and then a full dump weekly? Thanks! --Tiernan On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: 2012-10-05 11:17, Tiernan OToole wrote: Also, as a follow up question, but slightly unrelated, when it comes to the ZFS Send, i could use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-05 Thread Tiernan OToole
Thanks again Jim. Very handy info. This is now my weekend project, so hopefully things go well! --Tiernan On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: 2012-10-05 13:13, Tiernan OToole wrote: Thanks for that Jim! Sounds like a plan there... One question about

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building an On-Site and Off-Size ZFS server, replication question

2012-10-05 Thread Tiernan OToole
-10-05 11:17, Tiernan OToole wrote: Also, as a follow up question, but slightly unrelated, when it comes to the ZFS Send, i could use SSH to do the send, directly to the machine... Or i could upload the compressed, and possibly encrypted dump to the server... Which, for resume-ability and speed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale performance query

2011-07-25 Thread Tiernan OToole
they dont go into too much detail on their setup, and they are not running Solaris, but they do mention how their SATA cards see different drives, based on where they are placed they also have a second revision at

[zfs-discuss] Migrating from ZFS-Fuse to ZFS Proper...

2011-07-22 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning all. I built a test system using Linux (Ubuntu) and ZFS Fuse, just for testing... I formatted 2 drives in the pool as ZFS, and have been putting data on the system to see how performance worked, etc... Is this pool compatible with ZFS proper? Eg, Solaris Express? Open Indiana?, or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating from ZFS-Fuse to ZFS Proper...

2011-07-22 Thread Tiernan OToole
never mind... found an answer here: http://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/group/zfs-discuss/browse_thread/thread/3183dab146d5f1af/d9e9d59b19aa4401?lnk=raot On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Tiernan OToole lsmart...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning all. I built a test system using Linux

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-18 Thread Tiernan OToole
Ok, so, taking 2 300Gb disks, and 2 500Gb disks, and creating an 800Gb mirrored striped thing is sounding like a bad idea... what about just creating a pool of all disks, without using mirrors? I seen something called copies, which if i am reading correctly, will make sure a number of copies of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
Well, not knowing a lot about these, but if the flash stick is based on SSD, then it might work well, but if its just a standard USB key rebundled as a eSATA disk, maybe not... On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:21:13PM +, Tiernan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
[mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tiernan OToole This might be a stupid question, but here goes... Would adding, say, 4 4 or 8gb usb keys as a zil make enough of a difference for writes on an iscsi shared vol? I am finding reads are not too bad (40is mb/s over

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
for the info. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Tiernan OToole [mailto:lsmart...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:46 AM I have 2 500Gb internal drives and 2 300Gb USB drives. If i where to create a 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
drive falls over, does ZFS not recover well? do i need to reboot fully? Thanks. --Tienan On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: 2011-07-16 15:46, Tiernan OToole пишет: Thanks for the info. need to rebuild my machine and ZFS pool kind of new

[zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-15 Thread Tiernan OToole
This might be a stupid question, but here goes... Would adding, say, 4 4 or 8gb usb keys as a zil make enough of a difference for writes on an iscsi shared vol? I am finding reads are not too bad (40is mb/s over gige on 2 500gb drives stripped) but writes top out at about 10 and drop a lot

[zfs-discuss] Recomendations for Storage Pool Config

2010-06-25 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning all. This question has probably poped up before, but maybe not in this exact way… I am planning on building a SAN for my home meta centre, and have some of the raid cards I need for the build. I will be ordering the case soon, and then the drives. The cards I have are 2 8 port

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS based SAN

2010-02-17 Thread Tiernan OToole
At the moment is just one pool with a plan to add the 500gb drives... What would be recommend? -Original Message- From: Brandon High bh...@freaks.com Sent: 17 February 2010 01:00 To: Tiernan OToole lsmart...@gmail.com Cc: Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS based SAN

2010-02-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
So, does that work with RAIDZ1 and 2 pools? On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Tiernan OToole wrote: Good morning all. I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and i am already thinkg ov the V2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS based SAN

2010-02-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
Cool... Thanks for the advice! Buy why would it be a good idea to change layout on bigger disks? -Original Message- From: Brandon High bh...@freaks.com Sent: 16 February 2010 18:26 To: Tiernan OToole lsmart...@gmail.com Cc: Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS based SAN

2010-02-15 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning all. I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and i am already thinkg ov the V2 build... Currently, there are 8 250Gb hdds and 3 500Gb disks. the 8 250s are in a RAIDZ2 array, and the 3 500s will be in RAIDZ1... At the moment, the current case is quite

[zfs-discuss] 3ware 9650 SE

2010-02-01 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning. looking at the 3ware 9650 SE raid controller for a new build... anyone have any luck with this card? their site says they support OpenSolaris... anyone used one? Thanks. Tiernan OToole Software Developer Chat Google Talk: lsmart...@gmail.com Skype: tiernanotoole MSN: lotas

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3ware 9650 SE

2010-02-01 Thread Tiernan OToole
Thanks for the feedback lads... dont really need the boot drives to be on the array... was going to use the onboard controller for that... got an adaptec card already, so might look at those again... --Tiernan On 01/02/2010 15:59, TheJay wrote: I use the Beta 9.5.3 ISO Opensolaris package

Re: [zfs-discuss] Media server build

2010-01-31 Thread Tiernan OToole
include Solaris or OpenSolaris... Pity... finally, i will use the 750 somewhere else, and use 3 500s i have here... should be enough to start with... Tiernan OToole Software Developer Chat Google Talk: lsmart...@gmail.com Skype: tiernanotoole MSN: lotas...@hotmail.com Contact Me Tiernans Comms

Re: [zfs-discuss] Media server build

2010-01-30 Thread Tiernan OToole
, i have 3 net cards in the box (not ZFS specific, but i will ask here anyway...) and only the onboard has been configured but its only 100mb/s... how do i figure out what the others are and add them? Again, stupid newbe questions here... Tiernan OToole Software Developer Chat Google Talk: lsmart

Re: [zfs-discuss] Media server build

2010-01-29 Thread Tiernan OToole
, Tiernan OToole lsmart...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning. This is more than likley a stupid question on this alias but I will ask anyway. I am building a media server in the house and am trying to figure out what os to install. I know it must have zfs support but can't figure if I should use Freenas

Re: [zfs-discuss] Media server build

2010-01-29 Thread Tiernan OToole
cool lads! thanks for the links. checking out Simon's posts now. going to try get my hands on an external DVD Drive and install something tomorrow... NextaCore might be the way to go if it has both OpenSolaris and Debian, or StormOS, which sounds interesting too... I agree, 4Tb for a home server

[zfs-discuss] Media server build

2010-01-28 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning. This is more than likley a stupid question on this alias but I will ask anyway. I am building a media server in the house and am trying to figure out what os to install. I know it must have zfs support but can't figure if I should use Freenas or open solaris. Free nas has the

Re: [zfs-discuss] $100 SSD = 5x faster dedupe

2010-01-07 Thread Tiernan OToole
Sorry to hijack the thread, but can you explain your setup? Sounds interesting, but need more info... Thanks! --Tiernan On Jan 7, 2010 11:56 PM, Marty Scholes martyscho...@yahoo.com wrote: Ian wrote: Why did you set dedup=verify on the USB pool? Because that is my last-ditch copy of the data

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS iSCSI volume problems

2010-01-06 Thread Tiernan OToole
stupid question, but it wouldent by any chance be an Intel Network adapter? had a weird problem on Windows which had the same issue... new net driver solved the problem... wonder if the Intel drive has the same problem on Solaris... --Tiernan On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, John

[zfs-discuss] De-Dupe and iSCSI

2009-11-03 Thread Tiernan OToole
Good morning all... Great work on the De-Dupe stuff. cant wait to try it out. but quick question about iSCSI and De-Dupe. will it work? if i share out a ZVOL to another machine and copy some simular files to it (thinking VMs) will they get de-duplicated? Thanks. -- Tiernan O'Toole