`<div dir="ltr">Thanks guys, that's very helpful. <div><br></div><div>Tim that sounds very close to the use-case i had in my head. I've run into a couple of situations where a VM sitting on ESXi on particular hardware was much more performant than the exact same system, bare-metal on the exact same hardware. Once I actually P2V'd a server to a temp location, loaded ESXi on the physical server, migrated the P2V'd guest back and it was crazy how much faster and stabler it was. So now days I tend to want to run ESXi on the bare-metal, but I didn't have any experience with DirectPath, and it looked perfect for this situation.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again gentlemen, much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><p style="font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-jb-</span></span></font></p><div style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(96,96,96);margin:0px"><b>Joseph Boren</b></div><p style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(96,96,96);margin:0px 0px 12px">IT Specialist</p><div style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(255,147,0);margin:0px"><b>DRAKE COOPER</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(102,102,102);margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">+</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>c: <a value="+12084725666" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">(208) 891-2128</a> <span style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">+</span> o: <a value="+12084725666" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">(208) 342-0925</a></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(102,102,102);margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">+</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>416 S. 8th St., Boise, ID 83702</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">+</span><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">w: </span><a href="http://drakecooper.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9300">drakecooper.com</font></a> <span style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">+ </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">f:</span><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"> </span><a href="http://facebook.com/drakecooper" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9300">/drakecooper</font></a> <span style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">+</span> <span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">t:</span><font color="#ff9900"> </font><a href="http://twitter.com/drakecooper" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9300">@drakecooper</font></a><font color="#ff9300"> </font></div><p></p>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Tim Rice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@multitalents.net" target="_blank">tim@multitalents.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Schweiss, Chip wrote:<br>
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| I've been using DirectPath with ESXi 5.0 with an LSI HBA for almost 2 years<br>
| to an OpenIndiana server. It's been very stable:<br>
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</span>My all in one box (Supermicro MBD-X9SCM-F-0) was on ESXi 5.1 for<br>
about a year with a LSI SAS3801E and a LSI SAS9211-4i. I've since<br>
updated to ESXi 5.5 update2. The OmniOS r151006 VM provides NFS<br>
storage to the ESXi host for (currently) 15 running VMS as well<br>
as well as NFS home directories for various other computers around<br>
the office. Other than drives failing, it's been working reasonably<br>
well for what it is.<br>
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|<br>
| root@zfs01:~# uptime<br>
| 21:01pm up 649 days 6:58, 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.30, 0.25<br>
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| On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Joseph Boren <<a href="mailto:jboren@drakecooper.com">jboren@drakecooper.com</a>> wrote:<br>
|<br>
| > Greetings,<br>
| ><br>
| > I was wondering if anyone was using DirectPath, specifically for exclusive<br>
| > use of a drive controller and attached drives to a specific VM. I have a<br>
| > use case that would seem to be a good fit for this, so I played around with<br>
| > a couple of RAID controllers I had, and was able to get one (3ware 9650se)<br>
| > configured for directpath, but none of the drives attached would show to<br>
| > OmniOS, regardless of how I configured them in the raid bois (JBOD,<br>
| > individual disks, etc). I know that controller is poorly supported and I<br>
| > was curious if anyone was using DirectPath this way in production and what<br>
| > kind of drive controller/HBA/whatever was working. Also any "for the love<br>
| > of god don't do it this way" scenarios? I seem to be really adept at<br>
| > finding and trying those out first....<br>
| ><br>
| > Thanks a ton and best regards,<br>
| ><br>
| > -jb-<br>
</span>| > *Joseph Boren*<br>
| ><br>
| > IT Specialist<br>
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