Linked Questions
22 questions linked to/from Hosting a ZFS server as a virtual guest
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What's in my ZFS ARC and L2ARC caches?
I have a simple ZFS setup at home, four disks mirrored, 8GB ram and 120GB Intel X25-M SSD for L2ARC. I ran zpool add poolname cache cXtXdX then generated load and eagerly tracked the warming process ...
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Why did I experience checksum errors with a ZFS filesystem on an ESXi RDM?
I have a VMware ESXi 4.1 server which I recently added 2x1TB SATA drives to. This machine runs a NexentaStor Community VM which hosts ZFS filesystems. Before adding the new drives, all the ZFS zpools ...
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esxi passthrough storage adapter
I run ESXi 5.1.0 (HP version) on HP ProLiant ML310e G8 v2.
There are 2 Storage Adapters:
Smart Array P222
Dynamic Smart Array B120i
Storage Adapters are visible in ESXi/Storage Adapters.
Storage ...
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Virtualized Storage for other VMs on ESXi host [duplicate]
This question is two fold.
Part 1:
Is it a bad idea to virtualize a storage solution and run VMDKs off of that as opposed to the original VMFS datastore.
Essentially lets assume I have 2 TB worth ...
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How can I setup PCI passthrough for my HighPoint 1144A USB 3.0 card under ESXi 5.1?
I have an Apple Mac Pro (MacPro5,1) running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 (799733) with a HighPoint RocketU 1144A USB 3.0 PCI-express card installed. Given that VMware ESXi 5.1 doesn't support USB 3.0 for host-...
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Xenserver 6.1 and ZFS file server
I want a paravirtualized ZFS server for Xenserver 6.1 supporting a 6+ TB zpool.
The old templates for Xenserver 6.0.2 and FreeBSD 9 don't work.
I have been unsuccessful ("Not a Xen-ELF image...") at ...
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Can I flash a PCI-E device's Firmware in a VM if the VM has exclusive IOMMU access?
I have a PCI-E Dell Perc 6/i RAID card that I'd like to flash with the latest firmware. Apparently I need either a Redhat / Centos OS or Windows in order to flash the firmware, but I have a ...
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solaris 11 express hosting vm's
I have been trying to wrap my head around this one. I have not seen a decent yes/no or how answer yet.
I have a solaris 11 zfs server I want to host 2 or 3 vm's on it and have them use a loop network ...
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Drives randomly dropping from RAID array
We have 3x 3TB WD Red drives configured in a RAID 5 on an HP P812 controller with the latest firmware on.
However, drives keep being dropped randomly from the array upon reboots, though not always. ...
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Is it possible to boot from a passthrough LSI 2008 SAS controller under VMware ESXi?
I currently have Solaris 11 Express running on bare metal. I'd like to convert the machine to an ESXI host and run the existing os as a virtual machine.
I have ESXI setup, the virtual machine made, ...
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ZFS (NexentaStor) and 4k Advanced Format Partition Alignment
I have a storage system that contains 8 x 1TB drives that use the 4k sector size "Advanced Format". I'm planning to run NexentaStor on this hardware and want to ensure that I'm taking the 4k sector ...
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Why am I getting only 1gbps between Solaris and VMware?
I have a VMWare ESXi 5.1.0 (build 1065491) host running a Solaris (OpenIndiana) VM as a guest. I have created a private vSwitch for NFS traffic between ESXi and Solaris. The Solaris VM has the VMware ...
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How do physical disks passed through ESXi perform vs. passing through HBAs?
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I have a SAN operating system (Nexenta) that runs on ESXi. It has a couple of HBAs passed through to it already, via VT-d. All of the HBAs for the SAN OS are full (no free connectors). I ...
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Best practices on VM disk management
I'm replacing two old rack servers with a new one that has plenty of power to take over the functionality the current servers. The server is a 4U rack mount with 16 3.5" SAS drive bays, two 2.5" bays, ...
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Persistent ESXi iSCSI datastore from guest VM based target? [closed]
I'm in the process of building a home lab environment for Cisco and VMware that will also double as a NAS. The system runs ESXi v6.0 bare metal. Part of my design is that I have a Lenovo TS440 with ...