Sorry for the long post but I know trying to decide on hardware often want to see details about what people are using. I have the following AS-2022G-URF machine running OpenGaryIndiana[1] that I am starting to use. I successfully transferred a deduped zpool with 1.x TB of files and 60 or so zfs filesystems using mbuffer from an old 134 system with 6 drives - it ran at about 50MB/s or slightly more for much of the process and mbuffer worked great. I am wondering what commands people would recommend running to retrieve/save config info, logs, history, etc to document and save important files _before_ any problems arise. I am planning ''zfs history'' and ''zpool history'' but looking for ideas. Also, ideas for light testing/benchmarking would be great but I don''t think I can erase/destroy the zpools for testing. One one thing that went wrong so far that I know about - I seem to have munged one of the SSDs by running format on it - it asked for cyl/track/sect info and then barfed. I won''t look at SSDs using format ever again. And the 2TB drives seem somewhat slow... I am thinking about trying napp-it - anyone using it with OpenIndiana? Thanks in advance. %< ----------------------=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=---------------------- >% AS-2022G-URF http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/2U/2022/AS-2022G-URF.cfm with: * 1 x AMD 6172 12 core processor * 16 GB Ram * 2 x WD1002FAEX connected to motherboard amd-ahci for rpool * 2 x some Kingston SSDs connected to motherboard for arc/zil maybe * 1 LSI LSI00194 connected via 2 8087 cables to the internal drive bays with: * 8 x WD1002FAEX-0-1D05 - 1 TB WDC Black drives 2 x Areca ARC-1222X (with battery) each connected to a Tekram R08 2U 8 Bay case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816208017 these are discontinued, I not sure why, the guy at Tekram said they were samples or a trial or something but they were about $250 each * 8 x WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B 2 TB WDC Black drives the other: * 8 x Samsung F3 1 TB - I''ll post those later when I have it hooked up if anyone is interested # uname -a SunOS xxyyzz 5.11 oi_147 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris # psrinfo -pv The physical processor has 12 virtual processors (0-11) x86 (AuthenticAMD 100F91 family 16 model 9 step 1 clock 2100 MHz) AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 [ Socket: G34 ] # zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 928G 13.5G 914G 1% 1.00x DEGRADED - xxx1 14.5T 1.41T 13.1T 9% 4.54x ONLINE - xx2 7.25T 109G 7.14T 1% 1.00x ONLINE - # zpool status pool: rpool state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices could not be opened. Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state. action: Attach the missing device and online it using ''zpool online''. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h2m with 0 errors on Thu Oct 7 17:46:54 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool DEGRADED 0 0 0 mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0 c5t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t1d0s0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open errors: No known data errors pool: xxx1 state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 30h34m with 0 errors on Mon Oct 11 06:44:59 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM xxx1 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d2 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d3 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d4 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d5 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d6 ONLINE 0 0 0 c7t0d7 ONLINE 0 0 0 logs c19d1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: xx2 state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Thu Oct 7 17:32:11 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM xx2 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE2AF54BB46d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE2AF54BE3Fd0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE2AF544E2Ed0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE204A9DC6Bd0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE204A9DCD5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE204A9E333d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE259FF2C16d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t50014EE259FF13F0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 # prtdiag -l System Configuration: Supermicro H8DGU BIOS Configuration: American Megatrends Inc. 1.0a 07/01/2010 BMC Configuration: IPMI 1.5 (KCS: Keyboard Controller Style) ==== Processor Sockets =================================== Version Location Tag -------------------------------- -------------------------- D1 CPU 1 CPU 2 ==== Memory Device Sockets =============================== Type Status Set Device Locator Bank Locator ----------- ------ --- ------------------- ---------------- Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM1B BANK0 Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM1A BANK1 Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM2B BANK2 Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM2A BANK3 Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM3B BANK4 Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM3A BANK5 Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM4B BANK6 Unknown in use 0 P1_DIMM4A BANK7 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM1B BANK8 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM1A BANK9 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM2B BANK10 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM2A BANK11 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM3B BANK12 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM3A BANK13 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM4B BANK14 unknown empty 0 P2_DIMM4A BANK15 ==== On-Board Devices ==================================== ==== Upgradeable Slots =================================== ID Status Type Description --- --------- ---------------- ---------------------------- 1 available PCI Express PCIE1 2 available PCI Express PCIE2 # format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c4t50014EE2AF54BB46d0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee2af54bb46 1. c4t50014EE2AF54BE3Fd0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee2af54be3f 2. c4t50014EE2AF544E2Ed0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee2af544e2e 3. c4t50014EE204A9DC6Bd0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee204a9dc6b 4. c4t50014EE204A9DCD5d0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee204a9dcd5 5. c4t50014EE204A9E333d0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee204a9e333 6. c4t50014EE259FF2C16d0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee259ff2c16 7. c4t50014EE259FF13F0d0 <ATA-WDC WD1002FAEX-0-1D05-931.51GB> /scsi_vhci/disk at g50014ee259ff13f0 8. c5t0d0 <ATA -WDC WD1002FAEX--1D05 cyl 60797 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,4391 at 11/disk at 0,0 9. c7t0d0 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,0 10. c7t0d1 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,1 11. c7t0d2 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,2 12. c7t0d3 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,3 13. c7t0d4 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,4 14. c7t0d5 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,5 15. c7t0d6 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,6 16. c7t0d7 <WDC-WD2001FASS-00W2B-R001-1.82TB> /pci at 0,0/pci1002,5a16 at 2/pci17d3,1222 at 0/disk at 0,7 17. c19d1 <Kingston-06J93000290-0001-59.63GB> /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 14,1/ide at 0/cmdk at 1,0 [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ILt3wNTZ7Q