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    ZFS questions?

    The base ZFS filesystem cannot guarantee the consistency of any VM guest filesystem unless you enable sync and can trust (or protect/disable) all...
    Post by: gea, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:17 PM in forum: Linux Admins, Storage and Virtualization
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    Napp-it Virtual Machine Memory Usage Critical

    OmniOS only logs the failed SMB access as an anonymous/guest, not where it comes from. You can only poweroff the Windows hosts and power them on...
    Post by: gea, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:59 PM in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    How to speed up resilver? (ZFS + Ubuntu bionic)

    There are tuning options for resilver time but with a very little improvement. Resilver must read all metadata and data what means that resilver...
    Post by: gea, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:40 AM in forum: Linux Admins, Storage and Virtualization
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    napp-it 14b AIO upgrade path?

    It is possible to upgrade OmniOS 151014 in several steps (over the next lts) to current 151032 stable, see 4. in napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN...
    Post by: gea, Jan 13, 2020 at 2:08 AM in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    Vlan persistence in Solaris 11.3

    I am not aware of a problem with persitency of ipadm. Did you always boot into the current BE? But why are you using vlans on Solaris? The usual...
    Post by: gea, Jan 11, 2020 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    ZFS questions?

    Scrub On every read, ZFS verifies the checksum and auto repairs problems from redundancy (self healing). Scrub does the same for all all files in...
    Post by: gea, Jan 11, 2020 in forum: Linux Admins, Storage and Virtualization
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    ESXi 6.7u3, Napp-It AIO, & Tuning

    A few hints If you want newest SMB and ZFS features, update to OmniOS 151032 stable (or use the ova template with 151032) Minimal RAM...
    Post by: gea, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    Vlan persistence in Solaris 11.3

    Creating a file /etc/hostname.interface to setup a nic is "Solaris 10 oldstyle". On Solaris 11, you use dladm/ipadm. Configuring IP Interfaces -...
    Post by: gea, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    Refreshing the Intel S2600 with ESXi & Napp-It

    A "pkg update" updates OmniOS 151030 lts to newest 151030 state If you want to update to 151032, you must - first change repository to 151032 -...
    Post by: gea, Jan 6, 2020 in forum: DIY Server and Workstation Builds
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    Napp-it All-in-One

    The template is created with ESXi 6.7u3 and may work up from 6.0 If you need a storage VM ex for ESXi 5.5, either use an older template and update...
    Post by: gea, Jan 6, 2020 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    Napp-it Virtual Machine Memory Usage Critical

    What filesystem (pool/filesystem)? If the pool/filesystem is tank/data you must enter /tank/data in screenshot3. Then be sure that the folder...
    Post by: gea, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    nss_ad in OmniOSCE r151030?

    If you only want to join a Windows AD domain: 1. use dns in nsswitch.conf There are different nsswitch templates in /etc. "cp /etc/nsswitch.dns...
    Post by: gea, Dec 31, 2019 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    DIY Linux Server or Synology NAS?

    Every solution has its special advantages and disadvantages. Synology for example is basically an average Linux system, paired with some special...
    Post by: gea, Dec 29, 2019 in forum: General Chat
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    Napp-it Virtual Machine Memory Usage Critical

    Your IOdrive may work in Oracle Solaris but its not on the Illumos HCL. For performance tests in napp-it you can run Pools > Benchmark. This is...
    Post by: gea, Dec 16, 2019 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it
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    Napp-it Virtual Machine Memory Usage Critical

    If you give 40GB to the napp-it storage VM, you can count 1-2GB for the OS, 4 GB for write caching (2GB current cache and 2 GB "old cache" that is...
    Post by: gea, Dec 13, 2019 in forum: Solaris, Nexenta, OpenIndiana, and napp-it