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Questions about Joyent the company, the Joyent Public Cloud, or one of the other Joyent products (Smart Data Center, SmartOS, etc)

Questions about Joyent the company, the Joyent Public Cloud, or one of the other Joyent products (Smart Data Center, SmartOS, etc)

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What design features make Joyent's ZFS and Amazon's EBS (S3) reliable?

I know this isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison, what I'm trying to evaluate is which one is safer - less likely to lose data. Joyent's SmartOS uses ZFS to store data whereas an EC2 machine can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) which…
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hosting iscsi on smartos

I am trying to get back into the unix game for some storage projects we have got going. We would love to use joyents smartos (based on illumos) for that. Working with it is a real joy (setting up vms etc) but i can't get iscsi to work. I would love…
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Upgrade provisioned Joyent SmartMachine

I am currently running a provisioned Joyent SmartMachine base64 version 1.8.2 with some standard software (apache, php) installed. Is ist possible to make an upgrade to a newer version (for example to SmartMachine base64 1.9.1) without provisioning…
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How can you fairly split CPU between multiple JVMs running on a single SmartOS server?

I currently run an app within Tomcat but want to deploy Play Framework on the same servers as well. For licensing reasons, this is cost efficient, but being able to use excess CPU usage on a beefier instance should be beneficial as well. If I'm…
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How do I force a specific MTU for only certain TCP ports?

Background I have a set of embedded hardware deployed in the field. These remote machines connect back to my servers at AWS running Ubuntu and I use the iptables mangle chain to lower the MTU to 500 so these devices are happy. For reference, this…
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Web dev left, can't contact to him, how do I reset root password for ssh so I can access it?

Our lead tech (unprofessionally) left our project, we can't contact him, but I, as a semi-technical project manager have access to our server on Joyent. Our new dev needs to take a look at our running instance to complete the project. Is it possible…
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GlassFish: There is a process already using the server port

I'm trying to run GlassFish 3.1.1 on Centos 6 in the Joyent cloud. No matter what I set the admin port to in glassfish/domains/domain1/config/domain.xml, when attempting to start it says: There is a process already using the admin port XXXXX -- it…
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Alternative storage for SVN backup with rsync

I've been backing up my SVN repo and trac environment using a weekly cron job and 2 custom scripts. This has been going to Joyent Strongspace; but since they have discontinued the service, I need an alternative provider. I would prefer amazon S3…
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SSH key setup for Joyent Node SmartMachine and Windows?

I just got a Joyent Node SmartMachine. I'm using Windows. My goal is to SSH in to the SmartMachine and add/install things from GitHub. The issue I'm having is that I'm unable to connect to my SmartMachine via SSH using Putty. In Putty, after I enter…
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Cannot reverse tunnel between my local machine and my open solaris server

I want to reverse tunnel connection to my SunOS (Joyent) so that any connections coming to 12043 on this server will be served by my local development server running at localhost:8843. Edit: I don't know why but SO is not formatting my post properly…
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In solaris, how monitor & auto-respond to critical events

I have a website that randomly fail. Is running in open solaris on joyent. I have a monitoring service that alert me when the site is down, but, I want a way to put a "insider" tool that tell me why that happened. Is because the cpu is too high?…
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Joyent SmartOS what exactly is it?? Does it run Linux Apps?

I've been reading on Joyent's SmartOS, what is it exactly I read something about it being KVM. With one article saying it could run windows, linux and OpenSolaris because its based on a project which is based on that. What kind of packages would I…
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