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SmartOS is a server-oriented distro of illumos, created by Joyent for use in their cloud service.

SmartOS is a server-oriented distro of illumos, the fully open community fork of the OpenSolaris operating system. Joyent originally created SmartOS to replace OpenSolaris as their cloud service platform, and then opened it up to the wider community. The KVM hypervisor has been integrated alongside existing OpenSolaris features such as ZFS, DTrace, and zones.

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Why is SMF manifest losing configuration data when exported on SmartOS?

I'm running a server process under SMF (Server Management Facility) on Joyent's Base64 1.8.1 SmartOS image. For those not aqauinted with SmartOS, it is a cloud-based distribution of IllumOS with KVM. But essentially it is like Solaris and inherits…
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With a 500GB SSD and a 250GB SSD is it possible to mirror a 250GB partition on the 500GB with the 250GB SSD using ZFS?

So I have a Samsung 250GB 850 Evo SSD and a 500GB 860 EVO SSD. I'm looking at using Solaris for this server (so looking at whether doing this with ZFS is possible). Is it possible to mirror the 250GB SSD with a 250GB partition on the 500GB SSD,…
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SmartOS Virtualization with one public IP address

Is it possible? (title of this question) Googling Virtualization with one public IP address yields nothing useful What I have: SmartOS on a dedicated server. Dedicated server has one public IP address. What I want to do: Host multiple guest OS…
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What kernel versions are supported in SmartOS lx-branded zones?

I'm using SmartOS on my servers and I'm really enthusiastic about it, especially since they launched their "LX-branded zones". These enable us to run Linux applications in a SmartOS "zone" at bare metal performance without a hypervisor. When I…
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How to run git as daemon on Solaris (SmartOS)

As stated in subject. I have this script that works fine from command line: #!/sbin/sh GITCOMMAND="git daemon --base-path=/my/git/repo --export-all --enable=receive-pack --reuseaddr" startcmd () { `$GITCOMMAND` } stopcmd () { pkill -f…
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ZFS pool created with ZFS on Linux, usable by SmartOS?

I have a Linux server running libvirt + KVM which I am thinking of migrating to SmartOS. The server has a ZFS pool created with ZFS on Linux, where the KVM guests are stored (as ZVOLs). My question is, can this pool be usable by SmartOS?
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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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Can I force nfsd on Solaris to announce more free space than physically available?

I'm working with various Solaris based distributions (OmniOS, SmartOS, Nexenta) and I have a highly compressible and deduplicable data set on a very small amount of high performance storage. The problem is that the space free announced by NFS to the…
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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 to change the timezone for a SmartOS Global Zone?

The SmartOS Global Zone defaults to the UTC timezone. I'd like to schedule some cron jobs, and I'd like them to automatically follow daylight saving time changes, without requiring me to manually change the UTC offset every time the daylight saving…
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SmartOS "/ filesystem full"

Last week I had issue where SmartOS wouldn't boot suddenly(off USB), it just hanged there after "mDNSPlatformRawTime went backwards by 3684530 ticks..." warning. I think this one used to appear at times, but I didn't pay attention, however this is…
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SmartOS: How to configure IPFilter (IPF) loopback firewall rule?

I have a SmartOS machine with one external IP address. One of my websites needs loopback access. However, if I try to curl https://www.example.com it simply times out from within a zone. From within the global zone I receive the following error…
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Troubleshooting SmartOS VM that won't start

I'm running SmartOS 20130405T010449Z with an Ubuntu KVM inside. The Ubuntu VM ran healthily for months, then after a reboot of the physical hardware the vm no longer connects to the network on startup, so I can't ssh into it to check its health. I…
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Operator \> and \< (string version comparison) are not recognised in shell script

I am trying to run Casandra nodetool and getting warnings coming from .sh script. [root@d11ca4cc-fa95-c8a9-e133-e64c434f0e6f ~]# nodetool status /opt/local/share/cassandra/bin/nodetool[53]: .[97]: [: <: unknown…
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Configure range of virtual user names with same password

I would appreciate if there is anybody who can advise me if the following FTP configuration is possible. I need range of read-only users that follow this pattern: (_[0-9]{15}) e.g., _012345678901234 that will use same password without creating all…
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