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I think they are technically the same (using zol) but the zetavault license is considerably cheaper than quantaStor (especially if you require HA like we do).

I did not expect this hailstorm. On-Topic: It looks like not so many have tried zetavault (no one :)). I will give it a try when our new supermicro server is ready to see how it performs against an ordinary OmniOS build (and maybe others if i find other alternatives in our price range)

Ouch, does not sound like a good start or attitude towards potential customers! Thanks for your reply. All suggestions are welcome! Our requirements, Redundancy. At least one storage server (node) should be able to fail or go down for maintenance Redundancy. At least two random disks should...

Looking to do a new SAN build and want to have the possibility for some more support than when using ordinary OmniOS. The SAN will host 30+ VMs. Have anyone tried zetaVault (http://www.zeta.systems/zetavault/intro/)? Their price is quite good, they are vmware and citrix verifier and they offer...

I have been scratching my head for the last 8 hours when benchmarking our storage performance from our xenservers and VMs running on them. The xenserver uses NFS for storage SR to a ZFS OmniOS machine with 32GB RAM and 8x Crucial M500 SSDs in a raid-z2 configuration. The connection is 1...

Hi Gea. Have not seen you in a while :) Consumer SSDs even the faster ones are not a good choice for a ZIL. I can agree on that. The Samsung 512GB Pro disk really is one of those 'bad choices'. Will see if we will invest in 2xS3700 or begin with one S3500 (just to see if it makes any...

Well nothing out of the ordinary i think. The Pool, pool: ssdPoolOne state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM CAP Product ssdPoolOne ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE...

Complicated might be an understatement :) I have to think about the S3700 alternative. I still feel its weird that the samsung drive performs so bad. Would be a waste of money to buy the intel and get the same "bad" results. I tried setting wsize,rsize on the nfs mount to 8K,32K,64K from the...

I read that document a while ago :) Some really good info in it. But how is it possible that the samsung drive gives so bad performance when the 4K write latency between the samsung and crucial drives are almost identical? http://www.storagereview.com/crucial_m500_ssd_review I read that...

Hello! Our setup. OmniOS 8x Crucial 960GB SSD (15% OP). Gigabit network (soon 10gbe). 8 disks in raid-z2 shared via NFS. I expected us to saturate the 1gbit link but we are not :) A windows vm on xenserver with crystaldisk gives this. sync=disabled sync=always *Here i see the weird 30MB/s...

Just wanted to tell you that i sorted out this issue. Simply rebooting the esxi machine where the solaris was running fixed it, do not know why tho.

So i have spent the better part of the day trying to mount a esxi datastore over NFS hosted by solaris 11. I cannot figure out what is causing this issue. The solaris 11 box has a zfs volume /tank/vms. It is shared using the following commands: zfs set share.nfs=on tank/vms zfs set...

I am settings up my home lab and I am looking on advice on where and how to do my datastore for my VMs. Im going to buy two SSDs (250 or 500 GB) to use in a raid1 setup for datastore. For now i am going to use two 500GB 7200RPM Samsung hard drives. My hardware: C6100 (8x Xeon L5520, 96 GB...

I disagree :), since i cant use it in my raid-z pool without the pool getting degraded i consider myself forced to replace it. It might still be "good enough" to use for some more non-vital data or in one of my windows boxes. However my retailer has it now so i will just wait and see what they...

Thanks for the input guys. Im going to post back here when the RMA is done :)