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Martin Hope
Akshat
Asked: 2012-02-27 02:33:52 +0800 CST
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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 stores its data on S3.

I'm wondering what are some of the architectural details that make the two systems reliable? I'm not too sure of the design of S3 on whether they have more than one location at which they store their data.

amazon-ec2 zfs amazon-s3 amazon-ebs joyent
Martin Hope
Steve
Asked: 2012-02-20 00:29:20 +0800 CST
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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 probably is another instance of a GlassFish server.

I've checked netstat and /etc/services and tried dozens of different ports, but to no avail. It just flat out says that every port I try is taken.

Ideas?

linux centos glassfish joyent
Martin Hope
mgoetzke
Asked: 2012-02-05 05:08:00 +0800 CST
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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 to simply share a zfs device as an iscsi connection point but cant get it to work. I also cant get smb or nfs to work, but those properties at least exist and i am sure they would work.

The documentation i can find seems a little all-over-the-place with some old solaris, new solaris, illumos stuff etc. Which is understandable since it is such a new release though.

Does anybody have any pointers ?

I already tried

zfs set shareiscsi=on zones/name

which results in "unknown property". And its not listed in the zfs properties anyway.

I also tried

sbdadm create-lu /dev/zvol/rdsk/zones/

but this results in 

sbdadm: unknown error

itadm also is not available and not service containing iscsi is listed in "svcs".

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Martin Hope
Kryptonite
Asked: 2011-10-14 00:59:35 +0800 CST
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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 because I already use it, but any alternative that will work without too much (any) changes to my process will be welcome.

Here are my 2 scripts:

#!/bin/sh
rsync -rltpvz --delete /svn/ kryptonite\@[email protected]:svn

#!/bin/sh
rsync -rltpvz --delete /var/lib/trac/ kryptonite\@[email protected]:trac
backup linux rsync amazon-s3 joyent
Martin Hope
Ed Talmadge
Asked: 2011-07-14 06:01:04 +0800 CST
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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 my username, I get the message:

Disconnected, No supported authentication methods available

My guess is that I have not properly setup my SSH keys.

What are the steps in Windows and the Node Control panel to setup the SSH keys?

ssh putty ssh-keys joyent