Apologies if this has been covered before, I couldn''t find anything in my searching. Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed on an x4275? -frank
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> wrote:> Apologies if this has been covered before, I couldn''t find anything > in my searching. > > Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed > on an x4275? > > -frank >Fishworks can only be run on systems purchased as a 7000 series, Sun will not support it on anything else. --Tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20091016/5dbd9ea0/attachment.html>
On October 16, 2009 1:08:17 PM -0500 Tim Cook <tim at cook.ms> wrote:> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> wrote: >> Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed >> on an x4275? > > Fishworks can only be run on systems purchased as a 7000 series, Sun will > not support it on anything else.I don''t care about "support", I only care if it can be convinced to run on another hardware. I guess the answer is no. Kind of ashame, really. thanks -frank
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> wrote:> On October 16, 2009 1:08:17 PM -0500 Tim Cook <tim at cook.ms> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed >>> on an x4275? >>> >> >> Fishworks can only be run on systems purchased as a 7000 series, Sun will >> not support it on anything else. >> > > I don''t care about "support", I only care if it can be convinced to run > on another hardware. I guess the answer is no. Kind of ashame, really. > > thanks > -frank >I''m sure you could convince it to work if you could get a copy of it. I just don''t know why you''d bother since there''s no guarantee it won''t munch data. You might as well just use the simulator. --Tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20091016/7458b69e/attachment.html>
>>>>> "fc" == Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> writes:fc> I don''t care about "support", I only care if it can be fc> convinced to run on another hardware. AIUI it is proprietary, neither free as in freedom nor as in beer. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 304 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20091016/c2500d50/attachment.bin>
Frank I''ve been looking into:- http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=128 Only played with a VM so far on my laptop, but it does seem to be an alternative to the Sun product if you don''t want to buy a S7000. IMHO: Sun are missing a great opportunity not offering a reasonable upgrade path from an X**** to an S7000. Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | T: +64 9 639 0652 | M: +64 21 666 161 Eagle Technology Group Ltd. Gate D, Alexandra Park, Greenlane West, Epsom Private Bag 93211, Parnell, Auckland Frank Cusack wrote: Apologies if this has been covered before, I couldn''t find anything in my searching. Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed on an x4275? -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss www.eagle.co.nz This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
On October 19, 2009 9:53:14 AM +1300 Trevor Pretty <trevor_pretty at eagle.co.nz> wrote:> Frank > > I''ve been looking into:- > http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection > &id=4&Itemid=128Thanks! I *thought* there was a Nexenta solution but a google search didn''t turn anything up for me. I''ll definitely be looking into this. The high level documentation is pretty weak, I guess I have to dig in. But while I have the attention of this list, does NexentaStor "natively" support AFP and "bonjour" or can I just add that myself?> Only played with a VM so far on my laptop, but it does seem to be an > alternative to the Sun product if you don''t want to buy a S7000. > > IMHO: Sun are missing a great opportunity not offering a reasonable > upgrade path from an X**** to an S7000.I agree. However, looking over the Nexenta offering I may prefer that anyway! I can get the density of the 7000 series by using x4540 hardware down the road. -frank
Jacob Ritorto
2009-Oct-19 17:59 UTC
[zfs-discuss] The iSCSI-backed zpool for my zone hangs.
My goal is to have a big, fast, HA filer that holds nearly everything for a bunch of development services, each running in its own Solaris zone. So when I need a new service, test box, etc., I provision a new zone and hand it to the dev requesters and they load their stuff on it and go. Each zone has zonepath on its own zpool, which is an iSCSI-backed device pointing to an a unique sparse zvol on the filer. If things slow down, we buy more 1U boxes with lots of CPU and RAM, don''t care about the disk, and simply provision more LUNs on the filer. Works great. Cheap, good performance, nice and scalable. They smiled on me for a while. Until the filer dropped a few packets. I know it shouldn''t happen and I''m addressing that, but the failure mode for this eventuality is too drastic. If the filer isn''t responding nicely to the zone''s i/o request, the zone pretty much completely hangs, responding to pings perhaps, but not allowing any real connections. Kind of, not surprisingly, like a machine whose root disk got yanked during normal operations. To make it worse, the whole global zone seems unable to do anything about the issue. I can''t down the affected zone; zoneadm commands just put the zone in a shutting_down state forever. zpool commands just hang. Only thing I''ve found to recover (from far away in the middle of the night) is to uadmin 1 1 the global zone. Even reboot didn''t work. So all the zones on the box get hard-reset and that makes all the dev guys pretty unhappy. I thought about setting failmode to continue on these individual zone pools because it''s set to wait right now. How do you folks predict that action will change play? thx jake
Frank Cusack wrote:> On October 19, 2009 9:53:14 AM +1300 Trevor Pretty > <trevor_pretty at eagle.co.nz> wrote: >> Frank >> >> I''ve been looking into:- >> http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection >> &id=4&Itemid=128 > > Thanks! I *thought* there was a Nexenta solution but a google search > didn''t turn anything up for me. I''ll definitely be looking into this. > The high level documentation is pretty weak, I guess I have to dig in. > But while I have the attention of this list, does NexentaStor "natively" > support AFP and "bonjour" or can I just add that myself?You can add this yourself via NMS plugin. The developers portal explains API and provides examples on how this can be done: http://www.nexentastor.org/ The Plugin API documentation collected here: http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/site/wiki/PluginAPI I think the closest example to follow would be Amanda Client: http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/amanda-client/repository Or UPS integration plugin: http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/ups/repository The plugin then can be uploaded into NexentaStor public repository and will be available to everyone who wants to use AFP sharing protocol.
H? Trevor; As can be seen from my email adress and signiture below my answer will be quite biased J To be honest, while converting every X series server with millions of alternative configurations to a Fishwork appliance may not be extremely difficult, it would be impossible to support them. So Sun have to limit the number of configurations that needs to supported to a reasonable number. (Even this "limited" number of Systems and options will equal to "unseen" flexibility and number of choices ) However I agree that ability to convert a 4540 to a 7210 would have been nice. Best regards Mertol <http://www.sun.com/> http://www.sun.com/emrkt/sigs/6g_top.gif Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +902123352222 Email mertol.ozyoney at sun.com From: zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Trevor Pretty Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:53 PM To: Frank Cusack Cc: zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275? Frank I''ve been looking into:- http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&i d=4&Itemid=128> &task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=128 Only played with a VM so far on my laptop, but it does seem to be an alternative to the Sun product if you don''t want to buy a S7000. IMHO: Sun are missing a great opportunity not offering a reasonable upgrade path from an X**** to an S7000. Trevor Pretty | Technical Account Manager | T: +64 9 639 0652 | M: +64 21 666 161 Eagle Technology Group Ltd. Gate D, Alexandra Park, Greenlane West, Epsom Private Bag 93211, Parnell, Auckland Frank Cusack wrote: Apologies if this has been covered before, I couldn''t find anything in my searching. Can the software which runs on the 7000 series servers be installed on an x4275? -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss <http://www.eagle.co.nz/> www.eagle.co.nz This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20091026/6f19692e/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1257 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20091026/6f19692e/attachment.gif>