Solaris

Hi christr
Thanks for your reply.
As posted from the beginning, I don't have a problem creating the aggregate - this works fine! The aggregate comes up and responds to ping, no problem here at all. I have also stated all steps that led me there, I am pretty sure they're following the Oracle documentation. I do have Solaris 11, so I have to work with ipadm and dladm.
Also, this is going to be a home NAS, no datacenter or networking guys included, but as I said, the aggregate works!

...it's just not persistent. After each reboot, it comes up like this:
I can then enable it like this:
Of course, the "-t" is for temporary, so this won't stay. It won't accept the command without "-t", stating "ipadm: persistent operation not supported for enable-if"...

This is driving me nuts. I tried creating /etc/nas1.aggr1 and put the IP in there, but it doesn't help - after a reboot, it's disabled again. This is especially frustrating, as I am able to create the aggregate and bring it up - manually.
If you can help on this.. please do, I'm really desperate by now...

Thanks and regards,

Cap'

I think the simplest solution is to add start script to /etc/rc3.d with just the "ipadm enable-if -t aggr1". It might look like this:

Code:

root@fake:/# cat /etc/rc3.d/S99aggr
#!/bin/sh
ipadm enable-if -t aggr1

Hi Bartus11,

I knew there must have been an easy way. That worked perfectly. Thanks a million times, this has kept me busy for days!

Now I can proceed with my NAS...

Cheers,

Cap'

That's interesting. I haven't had a chance to really work with Solaris 11 yet. Doing an init script is a good work around, but it's strange you have to do that. Maybe it's a bug with ipadm being so new.

Just curious, but for a home server is it even capable of those aggregate speeds? I run Solaris in my home server inside ESXi along with several flavors of Linux virtual machines. It's an Intel Q6600 with 6 gigs of RAM. The PCI bus can't reach over about 45 MB/sec for the I/O, so it never even reaches the full potential 100 MB/sec a gigabit provides. And is the home NAS cabable of going over 100 MB/sec also? I personally have never seen those kinds of speeds outside of SPARC or maybe Xeon hardware. Just curious, as it would be interesting to know for my future upgrades. I can see how you would want to set that up at the house just because you can too, as I certainly have overkill stuff like that too.

This also reminds me I need to upgrade my home Solaris machine to Solaris 11. We'll still be on Solaris 10 for the next few years at my work.

I assume it is a wee bit overkill, as you said... However, I didn't want to take a risk and since my hardware supports aggregating NIC's, I wanted to do it from the beginning instead of running short one day and having to add it later... I guessed this would be the bigger effort.

I have a separate VMWare ESXi Server with currently 5 guests on local disks. I want to run the VM's on this NAS, and also need around 2 TB of CIFS space for my movies. Today, if I am using the VM's heavily, the performance on the CIFS shares sometimes drops significantly, as they are now stored in the vmdk's. Also, I don't know how much impact has deduplication, compression, snapshotting etc.

For comparison, I use the following hardware:
- Supermicro X8SIE-F mainboard
- 12 GB ECC RAM
- Xeon L3426 CPU
- LSI 9211-8i Controller flashed with the IT firmware
This card has a PCI-Express x8 Interface.
- 2 x 320 GB HDD's in a ZFS mirror for OS
- 7 x 1 TB Samsung F3's for data, one being spare

The PCI Express 2.0 x8 Interface has a theoretical throughput of 16Gbit/s or 2 GB/s, according to Wikipedia, so I don't expect a bottleneck here. Of course, the performance of the card being able (or not) to use this bandwidth is a totally different story. After all, with 6 active disks, there should be plenty of performance for my needs, assuming the card can hold up on this workloads. I'll see it going on with my NAS configuration, and will let you know about my experiences here.
Regards,
Cap'

I would do it too if the hardware supported aggregation. After all, why not if the hardware can do it.

That sounds like a cool setup. I run everything inside my ESXi with 4 guests. Solaris 10, Ubuntu 11, CentOS 5, and a Windows VM. Solaris 10 acts as the router, DHCP server, firewall, etc... for the entire network. Ubuntu is my media and file server with two 600 GB disks for storage of video, family photos, music, documents, data, backups of home PCs, etc.... It has PS3 Media Server, qTorrent, Samba, NFS server, and MiniDLNA always running on it too. I have it rsync the data once a week for backup purposes. The CentOS just sits there running for when I feal like doing something in a Red Hat distro, and Windows runs a few tools like DynDNS and OpenDNS that don't have Unix versions of their tools. I also use the Windows VM for a few other things form time to time like being able to pull up a file on Dropbox remotely that I need a Windows PC for from my phone for stuff like Quicken, etc...

I plan to build a new home server sometime in 2012, as this current machine is now 4 years old and 600 gigs isn't cutting it anymore for storage. I'll probably do MicroATX with two 2 or 3 TB disks and setup ZFS mirrors on seperate vmdks on each physical disk, and then to the same with LVM for Linux VMs. Won't bother mirroring Windows, as who cares about Windows anyway.... . I'll probably wait to do Solaris 11 when I build the new machine. It's all so time consuming.

Interesting.
I mirrored Solaris, btw, not Windows.
If you want to set up a Solaris 11 home NAS, I definitely recommend you this article OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (Nexenta*, OpenIndiana, Solaris Express) - [H]ard|Forum
This is were I got the idea from, and it's what I intend to build (with napp-it, that is). However, you still need to invest a LOT of time...
Good luck,
Cap'