Lets get going with part 2 of the SmartOS Screencast series. In this Screencast Tutorial we will cover: Migrating of any Bare metal or virtual machine to SmartOS using “netcat” and “dd” Demo of an Ubuntu VM migration from Virtualbox. Using a live Linux system rescue CD in order to boot and use the netcat(…)
Fast ZFS Send with Netcat
The general way to send ZFS data sets to remote nodes is normally achieved by sending the ZFS stream through ssh. Example: zfs send zones/UUID@snapshot | ssh root@10.10.11.5 zfs recv zones/UUID The down side with this method is that ssh encryption is slow and has significant cpu overhead. You may find yourself in situations where(…)
Migrate KVM SmartOS vm’s to remote Nodes
I am sure some of you are wondering how to migrate or move individual SmartOS Virtual Machines from one SmartOS Server Node to another. This may be necessary in certain situations such as: Backup and Disaster Recovery purposes: In situations that require you have a standby node available with a backup of your running VM’s(…)
ZFS Remote Replication Script
Here is a ZFS replication script I found that works extremely well to automatically snapshot ZFS datasets. Kudos to the author Ryan Kernan for writing it. It also does the following: Maintains a certain number of snapshots and automatically deletes the old ones when they expire. Automatically ZFS sends incremental snapshots to a remote target ZFS(…)