[zfs-discuss] Rethinking my zpool

2010-03-19 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
Hello, After being immersed in this list and other ZFS sites for the past few weeks I am having some doubts about the zpool layout on my new server. It's not too late to make a change so I thought I would ask for comments. My current plan to to have 12 x 1.5 TB disks in a what I would normally

[zfs-discuss] iSCSI confusion

2010-05-23 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
Hello, I think I know the answer to this, but not being an iSCSI expert I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised by your answers. I currently use ZFS plus NFS to host a shared VMFS store for my VMware ESX cluster. It's easy to set up and high availability works great since all the ESX hosts see t

[zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
Hello, I have a degraded mirror set and this is has happened a few times (not always the same drive) over the last two years. In the past I replaced the drive and and ran zpool replace and all was well. I am wondering, however, if it is safe to run zpool replace without replacing the drive to s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-28 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
this situation I would like to know if I can hold off on physically replacing the drive. Is there a safe method to test it or put it back into service and see if it fails again? Thank you, Chris - Original Message - From: "Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC" To: zfs-discuss@

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
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[zfs-discuss] Replacing failed drive

2011-07-22 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
Hello, The bad news is I lost a drive on my production server. The good news is the spare kicked in and everything kept running as it should. I stopped by the datacenter last night, shut down the server, and physically replaced the failed drive. I want to make sure I don't screw anything up so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing failed drive

2011-07-22 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
- From: "Cindy Swearingen" To: "Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC" Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 3:57:00 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing failed drive Hi Chris, Which Solaris release is this? Depending on the Solaris release, you have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing failed drive

2011-07-22 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
It's resilvering now - thanks for the help! - Original Message - From: "Cindy Swearingen" To: "Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC" Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 4:26:00 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing failed drive C