Questions tagged [opensolaris]
Please consider the tag [OpenIndiana] instead of [OpenSolaris] since OpenSolaris is no longer an active project. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.
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Live migration with xVM without SAN
I have two physical servers that I'd like to setup for virtualization. I'd like to set them up in such a way so that the following goals are met:
Allows live migration of guest OSes from one server ...
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ZFS: Mirror vs. RAID-Z
I'm planning on building a file server using OpenSolaris and ZFS that will provide two primary services - be an iSCSI target for XenServer virtual machines & be a general home file server. The ...
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Tuning NFS client/server stack
I have a CentOS 5 VMWare server connecting to an OpenSolaris 2009.06 machine over NFS that holds the disk images. My virtual machines seem to be bound by slow IO so I'd like to do everything I can to ...
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ZFS - is it safe to remove files served by ZFS during a resilver/rebuild?
I have a Nexenta ZFS system serving a large NFS volume (using ~85% of 250 TB). One of the 70 disks failed over a week ago, and the system is resilvering a hot spare without issues (other than the ...
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Is there any fork of OpenSolaris?
— I have a plan to use OpenSolaris in this year, but now, the development has been discontinued.
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Finding ZFS .zfs/snapshots directory in OpenSolaris
My home directory in OpenSolaris 0906 is part of the zpool rpool. I can view the pool in zpool list. I can view the file system in zfs list. I can create snapshots. I can use zfs list and see a list ...
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zfs backup script cannot receive destination zpool is renamed
Hello I have an issue with a backup script for ZFS snapshots:
basically the break down of the script is this:
### START OF SCRIPT
# These variables are named first because they are nested in other ...
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memory Stuck in Solaris can't free memory
I am Working On Solaris 11, Now facing problem related to memory
As my root is reached to 90%, I have deleted the audit file from /var/share/audit which is of 8 GB after deleting the file,server ...
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How to remove the OpenSolaris ZFS dump device
The ZFS dump device is used only for debugging problems. In this case, I have decided the risk vs reward is such that I should delete the dump device to make room for other storage.
I am able to ...
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best opensource firewall
We implemented Untangle opensource firewall on our network and interested to know various other firewalls with GUI interface. Can someone suggest which are the best opensource firewall implemented.
I ...
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Where is my ZFS SMB share?
We run this pair of OpenSolaris servers that provide file storage. They run active/passive and stay in sync via snapshot replication every minute or so. Originally, they both ran OpenIndiana, but ...
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How can you fairly split CPU between multiple JVMs running on a single SmartOS server?
I currently run an app within Tomcat but want to deploy Play Framework on the same servers as well. For licensing reasons, this is cost efficient, but being able to use excess CPU usage on a beefier ...
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OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana drive full, cannot boot
While downloading my drive became full and now it is non booting.
I installed a new drive in the workstation then installed exactly the same OS.
I am now trying to go about a simple way of ...
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Is there an easy way to compile illumos components on Solaris 10?
I am trying to compile some components from ptools from illumos source code on Solaris 10, and so far it has been difficult since the build components are not available and the make files in the ...
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ZFS - destroying deduplicated zvol or data set stalls the server. How to recover?
I'm using Nexentastor on a secondary storage server running on an HP ProLiant DL180 G6 with 12 Midline (7200 RPM) SAS drives. The system has an E5620 CPU and 8GB RAM. There is no ZIL or L2ARC device.
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Are there any PCIe SSD cards compatable with OpenIndianna (OpenSolaris) and/or FreeNAS (freebsd) 8+?
Has anyone had any success at all with any PCIx SSD cards around the 200GB+ mark under FreeNAS 8 or OpenIndiana? Specifically either of these platforms because of ZFS support for which we'd be using ...
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Sata Card for OpenSolaris, no raid needed
can anyone recommend a Sata pci or pci-e card that is compatible with OpenSolaris? Raid isn't necessary as aim is to use ZFS.
I ended up getting:
- Intel sasuc8i (based on LSI 1068)
- Dell 5/i SAS ...
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Nexenta/OpenSolaris filer kernel panic/crash
I've an x4540 Sun storage server running NexentaStor Enterprise. It's serving NFS over 10GbE CX4 for several VMWare vSphere hosts. There are 30 virtual machines running.
For the past few weeks, I've ...
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Where can I find introductory documentation for ZFS?
I recently installed OpenIndiana because of an interest in ZFS. I like the feature-list of ZFS, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how to configure it. All of the documentation I ...
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Is it possible to remove the lock of consoles in Solaris?
I installed Solaris 11 with just consoles. Just like with Linux, you can switch between consoles using the Alt-F1 to Alt-F6 key combos. Great. Only, each time you do so, it asks you for your password.
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OpenSolaris.. Um, is it becoming unmaintained?
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/downloads
I see a download for 2009.06 and a dev download for 2010.03. (current month is 2010-12)
Could this mean that since the Oracle acquisition of Sun.. ...
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Hidden Features of Solaris/OpenSolaris
What are useful commands, tools, or tricks that one would find on Solaris or OpenSolaris that aren't available on a typical Linux distribution?
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Nexenta - unknown trap type 8 in user mode
I'm trying to install NexentaStor 3.1.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM on AMD64 platform. During the install I encounter the following exception :
"unknown trap type 8 in user mode"
Can anyone point me ...
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How to create OpenSolaris self bundle volume on EC2
I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.11 on EC2.
I want to create self bundle .
in ubuntu
sudo ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY -c $EC2_CERT --fstab /etc/fstab --user $AWS_ACCUNT_ID -r i386
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OpenSolaris: Remove user from a group from command line
How can I remove a user from a group from the command line in OpenSolaris (2008.11)?
I know I can define a user's primary group and a add a user to a group with:
usermod -g primarygroup user
usermod ...
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Removing snapshots created by lucreate
I patched my Solaris 10 system recently and as part of the lucreate process (creating the BE on the same zpool), a snapshot was created for one my zones.
The problem I'm running into is every night ...
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solaris how identified which nfs client are mounting a share
We have a solaris nfs server and we have a share that was shared to everyone, now i would like to know which clients are mounting this share, on linux i can use showmount -a nfsserver, but on solaris ...
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Configuring LACP between OpenIndiana (Solaris) and a Cisco C3560
I am running OpenIndiana (oi_151a8) and have two NICs aggregated using LACP connected to a Cisco WS-C3560G-48TS. Both the server and the switch show the aggregate link as up. But while link layer ...
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How to restart snmpd on Opensolaris after changing snmpd.conf?
I need to restart snmpd after updating /etc/snmp/conf/snmpd.conf, so it recognizes the changes. I'm using Net-SNMP 5.4.2 on Opensolaris 10. I've tried these two:
snmpd restart
kill -9 pid
The kill ...
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OpenIndiana (illumos): vmxnet3 interface lost on reboot
I want my VMware vmxnet3 interface to be brought up with DHCP on boot. I can manually configure the NIC with:
# ifconfig vmxnet3s0 plumb
# ipadm create-addr -T dhcp vmxnet3s0/v4dhcp
But after ...
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Why am I getting slow and jumpy ZFS write performance?
I have a 10-disk RAIDZ in Solaris 11.1. Its connected by 8G fibre. I have created a ZVOL, made it available with COMSTAR and mounted it on another machine connected by fibre. When I benchmark it ...
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Install p5i package on opensolaris 5.11 snv_110
I inherited an opensolaris server and we need to install a nice new network card (pci id 8086,10fb). The ixgbe package recently added support for this card; so I wanted to upgrade to the following.
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Mounting a CIFS share through vfstab in OpenSolaris
I'm trying to set up a CIFS share that will mount automatically on my OpenSolaris server. It seems like it would be simple enough, but there's something wrong in my syntax that's preventing it from ...
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ZFS rpool full, cant do anything
I have a huge problem, my rpool is full, so when i boot, i have tons of "no space on device" in my shell. No way to log, ssh server is down.
So i decided to boot with opensolaris Live cd and mount ...
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OpenIndiana Static IP
I've installed OpenIndiana 151a7 twice now. Configured a static ip using the following instructions:
svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam
svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:default
cp /etc/...
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Why is MySQL unable to open hosts.allow/hosts.deny?
I have a storage server running Nexenta (OpenSolaris kernel, Ubuntu userspace) with MySQL on top of a ZFS storage array, using innodb_file_per_table and ulimit -n set to 8K. mysqltuner.pl confirms ...
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OpenSolaris: What is the Dump device for?
What is the purpose of rpool/dump? Is is useful or necessary? When is it a good idea to re-size it? When is it a good idea to disable and remove it?
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Disable the console beep/bell under Illumos / Solaris?
When I login to the console of my Solaris box any command that would normally generate a bell (tab completion with more than one result, pressing an arrow key one too many times, etc) causes the ...
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How to change controller numbering/enumeration in Solaris 10?
After moving a Solaris 10 server to a new machine, the rpool disk is now c1t0d0. We have some third party applications hard coded for c0t0d0. How can I change the controller enumeration on this ...
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growing a raid z(1/2)
I'm planning on building a fileserver on top of opensolaris, using either a raid z1 or z2. Is it possible to later upgrade a disk at a time and immediately have access to the increased storage? Or ...
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How do I fix Open Solaris's terminal
OK so I fully admit that I am new to administrating Open Solaris but I had been a user of it back in Solaris 8 days. Since I wanted to build a ZFS NAS server I figured that Open Solaris would be be a ...
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Zpool disk failure - Where am I at?
After checking the status of one of my zpools today, I was faced with the following:
root@server: zpool status -v myPool
pool: myPool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an ...
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Why is SMF manifest losing configuration data when exported on SmartOS?
I'm running a server process under SMF (Server Management Facility) on Joyent's Base64 1.8.1 SmartOS image.
For those not aqauinted with SmartOS, it is a cloud-based distribution of IllumOS with KVM. ...
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OpenSolaris changing primary user group
How to change primary user group of a user? Preferably without losing the current primary group altogether as the user is part of 'staff' ie. admin. I suppose I could create another admin user and ...
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Potential problems running MongoDB on OpenSolaris & ZFS?
I've been using MongoDB on CentOS with ext4 for a few months now with no problems. I'm potentially going to be moving to Joyentcloud, and their SmartOS is based off of OpenSolaris and uses ZFS. I'm ...
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Solaris/OpenSolaris resources
What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment.
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Does (when?) OpenSolaris support ZFS deduplication and l2arc
Deduplication and L2ARC in ZFS would be nice to have. Does OpenSolaris support them? I can't quite figure out which version of Solaris they are in, and how that maps to OpenSolaris. Are they there? ...
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ZFS with L2ARC (SSD) slower for random seeks than without L2ARC
I am currently testing ZFS (Opensolaris 2009.06) in an older fileserver to evaluate its use for our needs. Our current setup is as follows:
Dual core (2,4 GHz) with 4 GB RAM
3x SATA controller with ...
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Trigger ZFS dedup one-off scan/rededup
I have a ZFS filesystems which has been running for some time and I recently had the opportunity to upgrade it (finally!) to the latest ZFS version. Our data doesn't scream dedup but I firmly believe ...
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Webadmin or GUI for ZFS in OpenSolaris
How do you enable the ZFS Webadmin or GUI in OpenSolaris? It seems possible, but not as a directly available package. Has anyone got it working with just OpenSolaris packages, or do I have to take ...
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