[OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI as a combined storage serverandvirtual server enviroment

[Dan Swartzendruber]

Depending on your cpu&motherboard, an alternative 'all in one' server is to
run ESXi on it, and virtualize OI.  A key requirement for good performance
is that cpu/motherboard support vt-d (pci pass-through.)  the only trick is
that you need two disk controllers - one that you pass through, and one to
run a single (small & cheap) disk for the local datastore that OI would live
on.  Be aware though that this is not officially supported by VMWare, so you
need to make sure you are using HW that people know works.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike La Spina [mailto:mike.laspina at laspina.ca] 
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:41 AM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI as a combined storage
serverandvirtual server enviroment

Hi,

You can do all of that and much more. Here is one example.

http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zf
s

Regards,
Mike

http://blog.laspina.ca/


-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Taraldsvik [mailto:mats.taraldsvik at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:31 AM
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI as a combined storage server
andvirtual server enviroment

Hi,

I'm currently using EON ZFS as a storage server, but would like to be
able to host a couple of virtual machines as well -- using only a single
server.

Will I, using OI, be able to share a zpool between the virtual machines
(created with KVM or another OI-supported technology, and stored in the
same or a different zpool), either directly,through nfs or iscsi?

Regards,
Mats Taraldsvik

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