Using the ZFS appliance REST API to take a quick look at all replication actions and check on progress of long running jobs.
Migrating Ubuntu On a ZFS Root File System
I have written a couple articles about this here http://blog.ls-al.com/ubuntu-on-a-zfs-root-file-system-for-ubuntu-15-04/ and here http://blog.ls-al.com/ubuntu-on-a-zfs-root-file-system-for-ubuntu-14-04/ This is a quick update. After using virtualbox to export and import on a new machine my guest did not boot up all the way. I suspect I was just not seeing the message about manual/skip check…
Ubuntu ZFS replication
Most of you will know that Ubuntu 16.04 will have ZFS merged into the kernel. Despite licensing arguments I see this as a positive move. I recently tested btrfs replication (http://blog.ls-al.com/btrfs-replication/) but being a long time Solaris admin and understanding how easy ZFS makes things I welcome this development. Here…
Btrfs Replication
Since btrfs has send and receive capabilities I took a look at it. The title is replication but if you are interested in enterprise level sophisticated storage level replication for disaster recover or better yet mature data set cloning for non production instances you will need to look further. For…
ZFS Storage Appliance RESTful API
Until now I have used ssh and javascript to do some of the more advanced automation tasks like snapshots, cloning and replication. I am starting to look at porting to REST and here is a quick example of two functions. ** I needed fabric and python-requests linux packages installed for…
Expanding a Solaris RPOOL
For reference I have a couple older articles on this topic here: http://blog.ls-al.com/growing-a-solaris-ldom-rpool/ http://blog.ls-al.com/zfs-grow-rpool-disk/ Specifically this article is what I did recently on a SPARC LDOM to expand the RPOOL. The RPOOL OS disk is a SAN shared LUN in this case. After growing the LUN to 50G on the…
Ubuntu On a ZFS Root File System for Ubuntu 15.04
Start Update 03.18.15: This is untested but I suspect if you are upgrading the kernel to 3.19.0 and you have issues you may need to change to the daily Vivid ppa. In my initial post I used stable and Utopic since Vivid was very new. End Update 03.18.15: This is…
ZFSSA List Snapshots Script
Quick script to illustrate interacting with the ZFS Storage Appliance. In this example I am listing ZFSSA snapshots containing a search string. Note I edited this for the article without re-testing it still works.
Ubuntu On a ZFS Root File System for Ubuntu 14.04
This is an update post to making an Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) OS work with ZFS root volume. Mostly the instructions remains the same as a previous post so this is a shortened version: http://blog.ls-al.com/booting-ubuntu-on-a-zfs-root-file-system/ Small warning I did this 4 times. It worked the first time but of course…
SUN Oracle ZFS Storage Simulator
Previously I wrote an article on getting the ZFS simulator to run on OVM. Until recently I did not realize that I could upgrade the ZFS simulator on Virtualbox. I kind of assumed the appliance is checking in the background and showing possible upgrades in the Available Updates page. None…