On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:30:42AM -0800, nate wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
ZFS is really nice. If VMware was supported on Solaris 86 then I would have built my own home server with Solaris rather than CentOS. (Although I'm not using VMware on that machine, at present; merely UserModeLinux for my protected instances). But CentOS is handling my 5*1Tbyte RAID5 OK for now :-)
You know the inverse is true right? Solaris is supported on VMWare ESX(i). Though SATA disks are not officially supported by the VMFS file system in 3.x.
I wanted Solaris as the Host OS so it could natively manage my disks via ZFS. Making it a guest would be pointless. Underneath that I would run a couple of smaller Linux instances (eg for internet facing services), maybe a Windows instance and so on.
You know you may not find VMware server for Solaris, but there is always Xen or VirtualBox.
-Ross
Ross Walker wrote:
You know you may not find VMware server for Solaris, but there is always Xen or VirtualBox.
and xVM Server which is Sun's version of Xen, with a Solaris domU and ZFS storage management. Last I looked, Sun is on the verge of releasing a paravirtualization driver package for MS Windows, too, which would make Windows in a VM perform very well (this is roughly equivalent to VMware Tools).
xVM Server is available now as part of SXCE and OpenSolaris now, and will be integrated into a future version of Solaris.
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
I wanted Solaris as the Host OS so it could natively manage my disks via ZFS. Making it a guest would be pointless. Underneath that I would
You know you may not find VMware server for Solaris, but there is always Xen or VirtualBox.
When I was looking at this, Xen wasn't anywhere near stable enough for my liking (I did look into it, but the Xen kernel failed to boot on my test box whereas the non-Xen kernel booted fine) and VirtualBox wasn't suitable (this was before Sun took it over).
Things have changed, but I don't want to rebuild now. If I ever get a new (better, stronger, faster) machine then I'll look into it again, but then maybe ZFS on Linux will be a strong contender by that point :-)
Stephen Harris wrote:
Things have changed, but I don't want to rebuild now. If I ever get a new (better, stronger, faster) machine then I'll look into it again, but then maybe ZFS on Linux will be a strong contender by that point :-)
Yeah - that'll come right after Hell freezes over.
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