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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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What could cause linux to reboot even though panic is not set

Bit of context. Few VM's running on KVM (SmartOS), using kernel 2.6.32.7 have been rebooting. Nothing in the Qemu/KVM logs to suggest it's a Qemu issue. Unfortunately while testing kdump i discovered a problem that causes the kdump kernel to panic…
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How to make Solaris rescan disk info after hotswap?

I'm running a SmartOS-based ZFS NAS, with a bunch of SATA disks directly connected to the logic board (no fancy disk controller / backplane or anything). A 1.5 TB disk in my zpool recently failed. iostat says: # iostat -En c2t5d0 c2t5d0 …
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smartOS HPC config suggestion

I'm configuring a brand new HPC server and am interested in using SmartOS because of it's virtualization control and zfs features. Does this configuration make sense for a SmartOS HPC, or would you recommend an alternative? System Specs: 2x 8-core…
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How to increase the size of the /opt file system in the global zone of smartOS running in VMWare?

I downloaded joyent's smartOS vmware image and got that running. Now I would like to increase the size of /opt because they were pretty stingy with it in the vm. In the vm's settings, I expanded the disk to 35Gb. But I don't know how to grow the…
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Exposing unexported filesystem mounted under ZFS volume as part of volumes NFS share

I have a ZFS Volume on my server I'm using as my network's NAS (called data/nas & part of the 'data' raidz zpool) and I am exposing this volume to my LAN via NFS using the ZFS attribute setting: sharenfs. This works great and has been extremely…
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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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Setting quotas from a Linux client on a SmartOS (OpenSolaris) based ZFS server

I have a SmartOS (an OS based on OpenSolaris) server running a few virtual machines. One of the ZFS volumes is shared as an NFS volume and mounted on one of the VMs which is running Debian wheezy. The mount works fine through NFS v4. When I set…
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SmartOS using ZFS and guest filesystems

If I do something like RAIDZ2 with 10 or so disks, then on guest operating systems, if I use a filesystem like ext3/4, will the guest filesystem be as safe as if it were also using ZFS? The reason I am asking is after reading some, it is recommended…
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Cannot set up blueimp jquery upload server for Node using SMF on SmartOS

I set up a node blueimp jquery file upload server on a Joyent cloud SmartOS SmartMachine (nodejs 13.1.0) instance. It works fine if I manually start it using the command ./node_modules/blueimp-file-upload-node/server.js. However, if start it using…
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On SmartOS how to tell if process was killed for OOM

A daemon process of mine gets killed almost immediately, as soon as it starts receiving requests. The application log has absolutely no error output, even when I try to run it in foreground. I have a suspicion that the OS might be killing it for…
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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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LSI 9211-8 or 9650se for a ZFS Pool

I'm putting together a white box (smartos) for our dev team with some of the leftover hardware we have. The server chassis I'm going to use has 8 swappable drives and I'm trying to determine which hba card to use for the ZFS Pool. I have both the…
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Monitoring / logging bandwidth usage per KVM on SmartOS?

Usually on a KVM node with CentOS, iptables support is enabled on the bridge (bridge-nf-call-iptables) iptables rules can be used to log the data, 2 chain rules one for incoming and one for outgoing then a bash script is used to extract the…
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CARP Virtual IP does not ping in virtualized environment

We have three physical machines with SmartOS on them in a LAN. Two of them, 10.40.0.30 and 10.40.0.240 are hypervisors with two pfSense-based virtualized gateways on them. These gateways have 10.40.0.1 and 10.40.0.2 addresses, respectively. There is…
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Cleaning log files on Solaris for a service manifest

I have a service manifest on Solaris (Smart OS actually) and I would like to periodically clean its log files either automatically or manually without shutting down the server. My log is…
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