[OmniOS-discuss] anyone doing DirectPath I/O?

[Schweiss, Chip]

I've been using DirectPath with ESXi 5.0 with an LSI HBA for almost 2 years
to an OpenIndiana server.  It's been very stable:

root at zfs01:~# uptime
 21:01pm  up 649 days  6:58,  2 users,  load average: 0.46, 0.30, 0.25


On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Joseph Boren <jboren at drakecooper.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I was wondering if anyone was using DirectPath, specifically for exclusive
> use of a drive controller and attached drives to a specific VM.    I have a
> use case that would seem to be a good fit for this, so I played around with
> a couple of RAID controllers I had, and was able to get one (3ware 9650se)
> configured for directpath, but none of the drives attached would show to
> OmniOS, regardless of how I configured them in the raid bois (JBOD,
> individual disks, etc).  I know that controller is poorly supported and I
> was curious if anyone was using DirectPath  this way in production and what
> kind of drive controller/HBA/whatever was working.  Also any "for the love
> of god don't do it this way" scenarios?  I seem to be really adept at
> finding and trying those out first....
>
> Thanks a ton and best regards,
>
> -jb-
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