correction: This is for OmniOS not SmartOS, SmartOS is not supported
I have improved my all-in-one concept to support mirrorred ZFS boot-disks
This gives a better uptime and allows to update ESXi independently from Omni/OI
basic steps:
- you need two Sata disks for ESXi (optionally an additional USB stick for ESXi)
- install ESXi on first disk or on a USB stick as usual
- install vsphere on a PC
- use vsphere to create a datastore on both disk
- use vsphere to create a virtual disk (20 GB+) on both datastores
- Install Omni/OI on the disk on the first datastore (which is first in boot-order)
- Install napp-it, connect via browser and http://ip:81
- Goto menu Disk - mirror bootdisk and mirror rpool to your second disk
optionally
- Edit ESXi VM-settings to modify Bios of this VM: setup boot order to boot from both disks, with second first if ESXi is on first disk
If you need to use a second disk with a different ESXi install, it does not affect Omni/OI beside an optional remirror
If you use an USB stick for ESXi, you have a fully independant mirrorred Storage VM
see
http://napp-it.org/manuals/all-in-one.html
I have improved my all-in-one concept to support mirrorred ZFS boot-disks
This gives a better uptime and allows to update ESXi independently from Omni/OI
basic steps:
- you need two Sata disks for ESXi (optionally an additional USB stick for ESXi)
- install ESXi on first disk or on a USB stick as usual
- install vsphere on a PC
- use vsphere to create a datastore on both disk
- use vsphere to create a virtual disk (20 GB+) on both datastores
- Install Omni/OI on the disk on the first datastore (which is first in boot-order)
- Install napp-it, connect via browser and http://ip:81
- Goto menu Disk - mirror bootdisk and mirror rpool to your second disk
optionally
- Edit ESXi VM-settings to modify Bios of this VM: setup boot order to boot from both disks, with second first if ESXi is on first disk
If you need to use a second disk with a different ESXi install, it does not affect Omni/OI beside an optional remirror
If you use an USB stick for ESXi, you have a fully independant mirrorred Storage VM
see
http://napp-it.org/manuals/all-in-one.html
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