Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:22:39 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysutils/iocage in a NAS environment Message-ID: <55BB84AF.5040808@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <55BB4CC5.2050004@free.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2015-07-31 06:24, Kai Gallasch wrote: > > Hi. > > Just read that FreeNAS 10 is going to use sysutils/iocage for managing > local jails on the NAS. That is great news and it will give iocage more > publicity and a wider user base! > > I am currently testing a FreeNAS 9 as a NAS for my FreeBSD servers. Each > (FreeBSD 10) server is running between 10-50 iocage jails. > > iocage's documentation states that each iocage installation needs a > zpool to run on. > > So the only way I see to use a NAS for iocage deployment would be to > make use of iSCSI (block based) mounts. The NAS would offer an iscsi > target to the jailhost. When mounted, it just shows up as a block based > LUN. You then could create a zpool on this LUN and use this zpool for > iocage. (Each time the jailhost starts up, the iSCSI mount + zpool > import would have to happen automatically) > > Does this approach make any sense when both performance or stability are > needed? > > Is it generally adviseable to use zpools on iSCSI targets, because they > are basically iSCSI exported zvols running on top of another zpool? > > Regards, > Kai. > If FreeBSD 9 is your NAS, why are the disks remote? Normally, you'd run iocage on the NAS (the machine with the physical disks in it) and have direct access to the zpool. -- Allan Jude [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVu4S7AAoJEBmVNT4SmAt+7LIP/j5S4CuAVnmj/qSkCrW77yHY 0Cwbce/S97piKuVbJc0VTQupNeRnXIRGX/GL3vXDPDmh6xbjCuU/OMumXleE+bv6 SJ3jsL7+7JFeTUWGJVcqLTKK0ZL3NFsZ9U9MIkCY46WGvQzK8I9S67aqFvKdEi7a tW2PIvqxo9qg1fS/cRTC9JWcZT0gPX6/qBKD3Ocvw97J1RJQoV/hNPIUprGDe2kC hmSrXZ3k5Q9fmBPs/smdL9ctRP9Ib7oPX/b8XY57sEclv9mbdBLixBWIbuYYsqZH b2kv12y17ObtAVJTeGn4WfexF77zm15UEJMQSG0vWgFf+RJvWbnvJWsv6GwJqfFq 26Gv1KsUSDexJebg2F/dEDkcpEKXxL4Fq5TQ1QhpCqb9X5nkgK9EH1ahIcmXzqOt 0btkFt5/62JR2FZOA5y+aBtI/1VvOPWYZkJ7uJ7ZFd7tKZARATsQwvlFwNJ3es7i 6mJDhcttA0R2zYuxM2ne2BZC/0lYfIB+/N5DuIlhOMELgBtW1GZthL2dcjXuyXXY RcoZ5+em/djF9DRg7GcPpbGmrmcPqV574fx0I8IrJVhXKqFcmSfppMjNh3SH1ps5 YX5jscJ87NsjPHe8ffJ3kgL/GlBvNhk0kEDiKixcYLU2M9tXTRz8lLPWb3r2kZeE gPv6P8PmqRvHDxxNTEAp =sbPk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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