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    RAID-Z slow on high contention, best way to improve?

    Thanks, Gea. I tested the VMs on an iSCSI target instead of NFS since that's the easiest change and that seems to have completely solved the contention issue. I'll need to experiment a little more before I switch over to iSCSI but it looks like this will work. Thanks for the suggestions.
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    RAID-Z slow on high contention, best way to improve?

    I'm running a Napp-It All in one setup. I have 16GB memory total and gave the OmniOS VM 4GB memory reserved and 2 cores (with high shares). I'm using an Avaton C2750 (so all this is on VMDKs unfortunately) 3x7200RPM 2TB Seagates in a RAID-Z with one Crucial M500 SSD acting as both ZIL and...
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    ZFS getting insufficient replicas trying to replace drive

    I think you are right that their is a problem with the replacement disk or cabling, while I was looking at the storage in VMware this morning the capacity went blank and then the drive vanished. I'll switch over to my mirror and when I rebuild go back to pass-through. Thanks, Gea!
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    ZFS getting insufficient replicas trying to replace drive

    I'm running a VMware Napp-It All-In-One on ESXi and OmniOS. Don't know if it matters but my setup is a Gen8 HP Microserver, using an IBM Serverraid M1015 in IT mode. I'm not passing the controller to OmniOS, instead I created a vmdk for OmniOS on each drive. I had a drive failure, zpool...
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    Improve ZFS/CIFS speed on HP Microserver + ESXi + Oi

    Hmmm... I will give ZoL a try on my test box (all my VMs aside from the ZFS server are Ubuntu anyway), I do share danswartz concerns on stability, hopefully a stable release will come soon. The other drawback with Linux and FreeBSD is the shares (CIFS shares and such) don't come over...
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    Improve ZFS/CIFS speed on HP Microserver + ESXi + Oi

    I tried going back to the e1000 but got similar results. I don't use TeraCopy, just plain old Windows explorer. I don't have another NIC to try on my desktop, but I do have a Macbook Pro so using smb I get 42 W and 60 R and AFP I get 60 W and 70 R using Blackmagic disk tester. Here's a test...
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    Improve ZFS/CIFS speed on HP Microserver + ESXi + Oi

    I'm running an OI + Napp-It inside ESXi, and I'm trying to figure out why CIFs performance is so bad... I get 30MBps W and 40MBps read (copying a 600MB ISO file) using a Windows share but I get 177MBps W and 60MBps read in iSCSI (and why are writes faster than reads?). I get much better read...
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    Backing up All in one VMWare ESXi ZFS VMs

    That looks like it will work. Thanks.
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    Backing up All in one VMWare ESXi ZFS VMs

    For those of you running an all in one VMWare ESXi (free version) on ZFS, how do you automate backing up your VMs without shutting them down? All my VMs are Ubuntu, right now important data folders in VMs are NFS mounted so I have CrashPlan backing up those folders, but re-installing all the...
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    Optimal ZFS Configuration for 2x2TB+3x1TB

    There is nothing to stop you from doing that, but it's not a best practice. If you wanted to give it a try (I wouldn't try it with important data) I would split the 2GB drives into 1GB partitions so you have 7x1TB and do a RAID-Z2 which would give you 5TB allow you to lose any one disk, you...
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    Optimal ZFS Configuration for 2x2TB+3x1TB

    I agree, partitioning the drives isn't a best practice for ZFS. Put the 5 drives in RAID-Z giving you 4TB now. When you need the extra space replace the 3 1TB drives with 2TB (one at a time, waiting for the replacement to be rebuilt before the next one) and your pool can grow to 8TB when...
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    I'm looking for a good looking Server Cabinet for Living Room

    I'm looking for a decent looking server cabinet to put in the living room. Mostly just to keep them out of site. Just wondering if anyone else has done something similar. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc I've got two HP Micro Servers I'd like...
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    I'm looking for a good looking Server Cabinet for Living Room

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    Building a new storage box around HP Proliant 40L

    I'm running OpenIndiana inside VMWare ESXi 5.0 on two HP Microserver N40Ls (basically used Napp-It's all-in-one guide), each with 8GB of ECC memory. One is running 1 SDD + 3x250GB Seagate 7200RPMs in RAID-Z (500GB) and the other 1 SSD + 3x1.5TB Seagate 5900RPM drives RAID-Z (3TB). Both perform...
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    Best way to migrate from NexentaStor to Napp-It

    Hmm.. looks like the replication isn't free..
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