Thanks Eugen. yea, i am with Hetzner, but no hardware passthough... As for ESXi, i am happy with it, but its not booting from USB... its using the disk to boot from... I am thinking of using a USB key to boot from though... just need to figure out how to remotely do this and if i should...
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 > > > 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, gave it a small > disk > > > to boot off and 2 1Tb disks on separate physical drives... I have > created a > > > mirror pool and shared it with VMWare over NFS and copied my ISOs to > this > > > share... > > > > > > So, 2 questions: > > > > > > 1: If you where given the same hardware, what would you do? (RAID card > is > > > an extra EUR30 or so a month, which i don't really want to spend, but > > > could, if needs be...) > > A RAID will only hurt you with all in one. Do you have hardware passthrough > with Hetzner (I presume you're with them, from the sound of it) on ESXi? > > > > 2: should i mirror the boot drive for the VM? > > > > If it were my money, I'd throw ESXi out the window and use Illumos for > > the hypervisor as well. You can use KVM for full virtualization and > > zones for light-weight. Plus, you'll be able to set up a ZFS mirror on > > I'm very interested, as I'm currently working on an all-in-one with > ESXi (using N40L for prototype and zfs send target, and a Supermicro > ESXi box for production with guests, all booted from USB internally > and zfs snapshot/send source). > > Why would you advise against the free ESXi, booted from USB, assuming > your hardware has disk pass-through? The UI is quite friendly, and it's > easy to deploy guests across the network. > > > the data pair and set copies=2 on the rpool if you don't have another > > disk to complete the rpool with it. Another possibility, though somewhat > > convoluted, is to slice up the disks into two parts: a small OS part and > > a large datastore part (e.g. 100GB for the OS, 900GB for the datastore). > > Then simply put the OS part in a three-way mirror rpool and the > > datastore part in a raidz (plus do a grubinstall on all disks). That > > way, you'll be able to sustain a single-disk failure of any one of the > > three disks. > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Tiernan O'Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.geekphotographer.com www.tiernanotoole.ie
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