I have used the dev edition .iso on ESXi 3.5/4 and Xen Server 5.5 without issue.

Hello Danny,

Were you able to use the Solaris Xen paravirtual kernel? Did you get higher then 100 Mbit Ethernet in the Nexenta VM on XenServer 5.5?

Thanks.

Hello,

I've managed to run NexentaStor developer edition as a VM in XenServer 5.5 in HVM (non paravirtualized). The trick is to run this command: "xe vm-param-set uuid= platform:viridian=false" after creating a VM based on the 'Other' template. You can then install Nexenta as usual and network will be found and work fine (at least 1GB).

Regards,

Nadav.

I tried "xe vm-param-set uuid= platform:viridian=false" but 2.2 EVAL iso booted with normal kernel (rtsl driver) for install, and upon reboot seems to have then tried to use the Xen aware drivers but just hung and wouldn't get past the Initialising.... screen.

Anyone else managed to get it working with XenServer?

You cannot use PV kernel for OpenSolaris based system on XenServer at this time. (You can use of course but not easy.) More simply use pv-kernel for xen - linux hosted XEN (ubuntu, fedora core, debian, ...).

Roman Strashkin wrote:

You cannot use PV kernel for OpenSolaris based system on XenServer at this time. (You can use of course but not easy.) More simply use pv-kernel for xen - linux hosted XEN (ubuntu, fedora core, debian, ...).

I just recently installed Nexenta on my XenServer 5.6 server. I seem to be getting pretty poor speeds with CIFS and FTP, never breaking 10-12 MBps. I never thought to check, but maybe its only on a 100 Mb port.

Without PV support and I stuck with a 100 Mb NIC? Do I have any other options? I'm new to XenServer as well as Nexenta, but I'm liking both so far. Thanks!

Eric V wrote:

Roman Strashkin wrote:

You cannot use PV kernel for OpenSolaris based system on XenServer at this time. (You can use of course but not easy.) More simply use pv-kernel for xen - linux hosted XEN (ubuntu, fedora core, debian, ...).

I just recently installed Nexenta on my XenServer 5.6 server. I seem to be getting pretty poor speeds with CIFS and FTP, never breaking 10-12 MBps. I never thought to check, but maybe its only on a 100 Mb port.

100 Mbps = 12.5 MBps

Without PV support and I stuck with a 100 Mb NIC? Do I have any other options? I'm new to XenServer as well as Nexenta, but I'm liking both so far. Thanks!

use Linux hosted XEN. It is not difficult.

Roman Strashkin wrote:

Eric V wrote:

Roman Strashkin wrote:

You cannot use PV kernel for OpenSolaris based system on XenServer at this time. (You can use of course but not easy.) More simply use pv-kernel for xen - linux hosted XEN (ubuntu, fedora core, debian, ...).

I just recently installed Nexenta on my XenServer 5.6 server. I seem to be getting pretty poor speeds with CIFS and FTP, never breaking 10-12 MBps. I never thought to check, but maybe its only on a 100 Mb port.

100 Mbps = 12.5 MBps

Without PV support and I stuck with a 100 Mb NIC? Do I have any other options? I'm new to XenServer as well as Nexenta, but I'm liking both so far. Thanks!

use Linux hosted XEN. It is not difficult.

I'd be more interested in getting Nexenta to work at full capacity than switching to a Linux VM... so I guess that is where my question is coming from. Utilizing ZFS for snapshots and dedupe are more appealing than simply switching to a Linux NAS.

I guess what Roman is suggesting is that XenServer Xen kernel version is not supporting ZFS pool v22 - which is used in v3.0 of NexentaStor. Maybe I'm wrong here but it sounds like PV isn't enabled just because of that..

Eric V wrote:

Roman Strashkin wrote:

Eric V wrote:

Roman Strashkin wrote:

You cannot use PV kernel for OpenSolaris based system on XenServer at this time. (You can use of course but not easy.) More simply use pv-kernel for xen - linux hosted XEN (ubuntu, fedora core, debian, ...).

I just recently installed Nexenta on my XenServer 5.6 server. I seem to be getting pretty poor speeds with CIFS and FTP, never breaking 10-12 MBps. I never thought to check, but maybe its only on a 100 Mb port.

100 Mbps = 12.5 MBps

Without PV support and I stuck with a 100 Mb NIC? Do I have any other options? I'm new to XenServer as well as Nexenta, but I'm liking both so far. Thanks!

use Linux hosted XEN. It is not difficult.

I'd be more interested in getting Nexenta to work at full capacity than switching to a Linux VM... so I guess that is where my question is coming from. Utilizing ZFS for snapshots and dedupe are more appealing than simply switching to a Linux NAS.

You have not correctly understood my answer. I propose to use the Xen on Linux (ubuntu, debian, fedora core, etc ...) instead of the Citrix XenServer. This week, the xen-developers have promised to add support of ZFS version 24 for the pygrub in Xen (xen from www.xen.org). We will release the NexentaStor-xen-image. For create your XEN Virtual Server you need to use only Xen from xen-unstable branch, because previos version supported ZFS version <14 for pygrub.