[OpenIndiana-discuss] Brainstorming for OpenIndiana server

[Gabriel de la Cruz]

Nice tutorial, thanks



On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Chris Mosetick <cmosetick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have OpenIndiana running on several machines. On one of them, I'm using
> OpenIndiana b148 as my main operating system, storage server and virtual
> machine host all in one physical machine. It does have dedicated ZIL and
> L2ARC devices to increase performance. I'm using VirtualBox 4.0.x as my
> virtual machine hypervisor, and *I'm not* using virtualbox default .vdi for
> virtual machines, instead I'm using ZFS zvols for my VM disks in
> conjunction
> with VirtualBox's built-in "raw disk access". (which in this case is not
> technically raw) It only takes a couple command lines to get it going and
> the performance has been great for me so far. I have Linux and Windows host
> running this way, even my firewall, running m0n0wall is running in there.
>
> I highly recommend using OpenIndiana as your VM host in conjunction with
> raw
> disk access. Run your Linux machines as VM's. You will need a lot more ram
> regardless of what you want to do.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> # virtualbox 4.0.x has already been installed.
> # "lift" is the name of a dedicated storage zpool
> # zimbra is the name of the virtual machine in VirtualBox, but will also be
> used as the name for zvol storage purposes.
>
> zfs create -s -V 100G -o volblocksize=128K lift/vboxhosts/zimbra
> zfs set compression=gzip-6 lift/vboxhosts/zimbra
> <<create the virtual machine now in VirtualBox name it "zimbra", then exit
> out of VirtualBox GUI>>
> chown admin:sysadmin /dev/zvol/rdsk/lift/vboxhosts/zimbra
> VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
> /lift/vboxhosts/zimbra/zimbra.vmdk -rawdisk
> /dev/zvol/rdsk/lift/vboxhosts/zimbra
> VBoxManage storageattach zimbra --storagectl "SAS Controller" --port 0
> --device 0 --type hdd --medium /lift/vboxhosts/zimbra.vmdk
> <<now open up the vbox gui or power on the zimbra machine with
> vboxheadless>>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
> <shadowhunter at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking about setting up a RAID-Z training server, with Linux as
> > a base. Yes, I know it's weird, but hear me out.
> >
> > I have an AMD Opteron server that I'm repurposing from my old
> > workstation. I may be putting a hot-swap cage in here, and using the
> > onboard nforce (ahci) controller with a Linux host, running
> > OpenIndiana in a VirtualBox instance. Could it be possible to pass the
> > raw devices to the VM via a SATA controller, and then run the drives
> > in a RAID-Z configuration? Unless the root pool can be set up on
> > install as RAID-Z, I can use a virtual disk
> >
> > Host will have an AMD Opteron 1352 with 4GB DDR2 RAM.
> >
> > --
> > " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech
> > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied,
> > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron
> > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is
> > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron
> > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead"
> > - Alex Smith (K4RNT)
> > - Sterling, Virginia USA
> >
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