Hi guys,
I was wondering if any of you out there are using Joyent Triton (formally SmartDataCenter) and SmartOS in production/homelab/whatever? I'm testing it out and know I'm going to run into some questions once I get past the basics.
My biggest complaint is that there aren't many places to discuss it. They have no community forums. Very few conversations around learning about it in forums/reddit/whatever. Which is unfortunate because from what I've seen the philosophy/engineering aspect of it seems to be really solid.
I've just started messing with it really. It was rather simple to get the basic head node up and running and add compute nodes (boot via PXE). Created some ubuntu LX containers and stuff, haven't tried KVM stuff yet or looked into how to create a windows VM. Had to work past some differences with my setup vs the typical tutorials where they are setting it up isolated from the rest of an existing network. This just meant configuring some specific vlan stuff on my switches so it could have the admin network on an untagged vlan without conflicting with my existing network.
One thing I find annoying is I've not seen any way to leverage ZFS functionality to allow migration of VM's from CN to CN (in the GUI) in the case where you might need to take a CN down for maintenance. Or a way (in the GUI) to zfs send a VM to another CN as a simple backup insurance method if a CN craps out. And even beyond that it would be cool if in the GUI they had a way to specify at a datacenter level disaster recovery to another datacenter. From what I gather Joyent takes the approach of redundancy should be handled at the application level. And I guess you could manually setup zfs send/receive on SmartOS (at least I assume) but would be way better if added into the operations portal.
I was wondering if any of you out there are using Joyent Triton (formally SmartDataCenter) and SmartOS in production/homelab/whatever? I'm testing it out and know I'm going to run into some questions once I get past the basics.
My biggest complaint is that there aren't many places to discuss it. They have no community forums. Very few conversations around learning about it in forums/reddit/whatever. Which is unfortunate because from what I've seen the philosophy/engineering aspect of it seems to be really solid.
I've just started messing with it really. It was rather simple to get the basic head node up and running and add compute nodes (boot via PXE). Created some ubuntu LX containers and stuff, haven't tried KVM stuff yet or looked into how to create a windows VM. Had to work past some differences with my setup vs the typical tutorials where they are setting it up isolated from the rest of an existing network. This just meant configuring some specific vlan stuff on my switches so it could have the admin network on an untagged vlan without conflicting with my existing network.
One thing I find annoying is I've not seen any way to leverage ZFS functionality to allow migration of VM's from CN to CN (in the GUI) in the case where you might need to take a CN down for maintenance. Or a way (in the GUI) to zfs send a VM to another CN as a simple backup insurance method if a CN craps out. And even beyond that it would be cool if in the GUI they had a way to specify at a datacenter level disaster recovery to another datacenter. From what I gather Joyent takes the approach of redundancy should be handled at the application level. And I guess you could manually setup zfs send/receive on SmartOS (at least I assume) but would be way better if added into the operations portal.