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zfs Snapshot Commands Example

Август 20th, 2011

As i have already discussed in my previous post zfs filesystem and MySQL about zfs overview and two most important command zpool and zfs. I am going to continue with usage of zfs snapshots. It includes create a pool, Create file system, Taking a snapshot, Renaming Snapshots, Listing all snapshots, restoring from snapshot and Moving the snapshot to other location.

A snapshot is a read-only copy of a file system or volume. Snapshots can be created almost instantly, and initially consume no additional disk space within the pool. However, as data within the active dataset changes, the snapshot consumes disk space by continuing to reference the old data and so prevents the space from being freed. Snapshots of volumes cannot be accessed directly, but they can be cloned, backed up, rolled back to.

Creating a Pool:
# zpool create zpool1 c2t0d0

List pool:
# zpool list

Create file system under above create pool:
Once you have a storage pool, you can build file systems on it:

# zfs create zpool1/data # zfs create zpool1/logs
Here we have built “/data” file system on pool zpool1

List all zfs file systems:
# zfs list

Taking a Snapshot:
# zfs snapshot < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs snapshot zpool1/data01@Snapshot1

Remove/Destroy a Snapshot:
# zfs destroy < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs destroy zpool1/data01@Snapshot1

Rename Snapshots:
You can rename snapshots but they must be renamed within the pool and dataset from which they were created.
# zfs rename < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name> < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs rename zpool1/data01@Snapshot1 zpool1/data01@Snapshot2

Below snapshot rename operation is not supported because the target pool and file system name are different from the pool and file system where the snapshot was created.

# zfs rename zpool1/data01@Snapshot1 zpool3/data01@Snapshot2

Displaying zfs Snapshots:
# zfs list
# zfs list -t snapshot

You can also list snapshots that were created for a particular file system:
# zfs list -r -t snapshot -o <name>,<creation> <pool>/<home>

Restore/Rolling Back zfs snapshots:
# zfs rollback < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs rollback zpool1/data01@Snapshot1

This will restore the entire file system with snapshot.

Restoring individual files:
It is possible to copy individual file from a snapshot by changing into the hidden “.zfs” directory of the pool that has been snapped.

cd /<pool name>/<file system name>
cd .zfs
cp <required file source location> <destination>

Example:
cd /zpool1/data01
cd .zfs
cp <required file source location> <destination>

Moving a  Snapshot to another system:
Wecan move the snapshot to another system and install it there as a usable file system. But at first we need to create a pool to receive the snapshot on the target system.

Step1: Create Pool on another system.
# zpool create -f zpool11 c2t0d0

Step2: Send the snapshot over the network and receive it into the pool using a combination of zfs send/receive command and a netwolrk pipe.
# zfs send zpool1/data01@snapshot1 | ssh <destination host> “usr/sbin/zfs receive zpool11/<myfilesystem>

Here zpool11 is the name of pool on another system which we have created above and myfilesystem is the name of filesystem you wish to put.



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zfs Snapshot Commands Example

Август 20th, 2011

As i have already discussed in my previous post zfs filesystem and MySQL about zfs overview and two most important command zpool and zfs in my previous post zfs FileSystem and MySQL. I am going to continue with usage of zfs snapshots. It includes create a pool, Create file system, Taking a snapshot, Renaming Snapshots, Listing all snapshots, restoring from snapshot and Moving the snapshot to other location.

A snapshot is a read-only copy of a file system or volume. Snapshots can be created almost instantly, and initially consume no additional disk space within the pool. However, as data within the active dataset changes, the snapshot consumes disk space by continuing to reference the old data and so prevents the space from being freed. Snapshots of volumes cannot be accessed directly, but they can be cloned, backed up, rolled back to.

Creating a Pool:
# zpool create zpool1 c2t0d0

List pool:
# zpool list

Create file system under above create pool:
Once you have a storage pool, you can build file systems on it:

# zfs create zpool1/data # zfs create zpool1/logs
Here we have built “/data” file system on pool zpool1

List all zfs file systems:
# zfs list

Taking a Snapshot:
# zfs snapshot < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs snapshot zpool1/data01@Snapshot1

Remove/Destroy a Snapshot:
# zfs destroy < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs destroy zpool1/data01@Snapshot1

Rename Snapshots:
You can rename snapshots but they must be renamed within the pool and dataset from which they were created.
# zfs rename < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name> < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs rename zpool1/data01@Snapshot1 zpool1/data01@Snapshot2

Below snapshot rename operation is not supported because the target pool and file system name are different from the pool and file system where the snapshot was created.

# zfs rename zpool1/data01@Snapshot1 zpool3/data01@Snapshot2

Displaying zfs Snapshots:
# zfs list
# zfs list -t snapshot

You can also list snapshots that were created for a particular file system:
# zfs list -r -t snapshot -o <name>,<creation> <pool>/<home>

Restore/Rolling Back zfs snapshots:
# zfs rollback < pool name>/<filesystem name>@<snapshot name>
Example:
# zfs rollback zpool1/data01@Snapshot1

This will restore the entire file system with snapshot.

Restoring individual files:
It is possible to copy individual file from a snapshot by changing into the hidden “.zfs” directory of the pool that has been snapped.

cd /<pool name>/<file system name>
cd .zfs
cp <required file source location> <destination>

Example:
cd /zpool1/data01
cd .zfs
cp <required file source location> <destination>

Moving a  Snapshot to another system:
Wecan move the snapshot to another system and install it there as a usable file system. But at first we need to create a pool to receive the snapshot on the target system.

Step1: Create Pool on another system.
# zpool create -f zpool11 c2t0d0

Step2: Send the snapshot over the network and receive it into the pool using a combination of zfs send/receive command and a netwolrk pipe.
# zfs send zpool1/data01@snapshot1 | ssh <destination host> “usr/sbin/zfs receive zpool11/<myfilesystem>

Here zpool11 is the name of pool on another system which we have created above and myfilesystem is the name of filesystem you wish to put.



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zfs FileSystem and MySQL

Август 17th, 2011



ZFS is a new kind of 128-bit file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. ZFS was first introduced in Solaris in 2004 and it is a default filesystem in OpenSolaris, but Linux ports are underway, Apple is shipping it in OS X 10.5 Leopard with limited zfs capability ( Apple shutdown this project afterward due to some known reason), and it will be included in FreeBSD 7.

ZFS Features:
  • Pooled Storage Model
  • Always consistent on disk
  • Protection from data corruption
  • Live data scrubbing
  • Instantaneous snapshots and clones
  • Portable snapshot streams
  • Highly scalable
  • Built in compression
  • Simplified administration model

Pooled Storage Model: ZFS presents a pooled storage model that completely eliminates the concept of volumes and the associated problems of partitions, provisioning, wasted bandwidth and stranded storage. Thousands of file systems can draw from a common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it actually needs. The combined I/O bandwidth of all devices in the pool is available to all file systems at all times.





Always consistent on disk: All operations are copy-on-write transactions, so the on-disk state is always valid. Every block is checksummed to prevent silent data corruption, and the data is self-healing in replicated (mirrored or RAID) configurations. If one copy is damaged, ZFS detects it and uses another copy to repair it.

Protection from data corruption: ZFS introduces a new data replication model called RAID-Z. It is similar to RAID-5 but uses variable stripe width to eliminate the RAID-5 write hole (stripe corruption due to loss of power between data and parity updates). All RAID-Z writes are full-stripe writes. There's no read-modify-write tax, no write hole, and — the best part — no need for NVRAM in hardware. ZFS loves cheap disks.

Live data scrubbing: But cheap disks can fail, so ZFS provides disk scrubbing. Similar to ECC memory scrubbing, all data is read to detect latent errors while they're still correctable. A scrub traverses the entire storage pool to read every data block, validates it against its 256-bit checksum, and repairs it if necessary. All this happens while the storage pool is live and in use.
ZFS has a pipelined I/O engine, similar in concept to CPU pipelines. The pipeline operates on I/O dependency graphs and provides scoreboarding, priority, deadline scheduling, out-of-order issue and I/O aggregation. I/O loads that bring other file systems to their knees are handled with ease by the ZFS I/O pipeline.

Instantaneous snapshots and clones (Most important and useful for huge backups in seconds): ZFS provides 2 64 constant-time snapshots and clones. A snapshot is a read-only point-in-time copy of a file system, while a clone is a writable copy of a snapshot. Clones provide an extremely space-efficient way to store many copies of mostly-shared data such as workspaces, software installations, and diskless clients.

Portable snapshot streams (Important & useful feature): You snapshot a ZFS file system, but you can also create incremental snapshots. Incremental snapshots are so efficient that they can be used for remote replication, such as transmitting an incremental update every 10 seconds.

Highly scalable (Important  useful feature): There are no arbitrary limits in ZFS. You can have as many files as you want: full 64-bit file offsets, unlimited links, directory entries, and so on.

Built in compression: ZFS provides built-in compression. In addition to reducing space usage by 2-3x, compression also reduces the amount of I/O by 2-3x. For this reason, enabling compression actually makes some workloads go faster.
In addition to file systems, ZFS storage pools can provide volumes for applications that need raw-device semantics. ZFS volumes can be used as swap devices, for example. And if you enable compression on a swap volume, you now have compressed virtual memory.

Simplified administration model: ZFS administration is both simple and powerful. zpool and zfs are the only two command you need to know. Please see the zpool(1M) and zfs(1M) man pages for more information.
The storage pool is a key abstraction: a pool can consist of many physical devices, and can hold many filesystems. Whenever you add storage to the pool, it becomes available to any filesystem that may need it. To take a newly-attached disk and use the whole disk for ZFS storage, you would use the command.

# zpool create zpool1 c2t0d0

Here, zpool1 represents the name of a pool, and c2t0d0 is a disk device.

If you have a disk had already been formatted – say, with a UFS filesystem on one partition – you can create a storage pool from another free partition:
# zpool create zpool1 c2t0d0s2

You can even use a plain file for storage:
# zpool create zpool1 ~/storage/myzfile

Once you have a storage pool, you can build filesystems on it:
# zfs create zpool1/data # zfs create zpool1/logs

Later on, if you run out of space, just add another device to the pool, and the filesystem will grow. 
# zpool add zp1 c3t0d0

ZFS and Tablespaces: 



innodb_data_file_path = /dbzpool/data/ibdatafile:20G:autoextend

Here is the only innodb_data_file_path that any ZFS system might ever need. You can split this over as many drives as you want, and ZFS will balance the load intelligently. You can stripe it, mirror it, add space when you need room to grow, bring spare disks online, and take faulted disks offline, without ever restarting the database.




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OpenSQL Camp Europe and FrOSCon: A summary

Август 26th, 2010

With OpenSQL Camp and FrOSCon being over for almost a week now, it's time to come up with a short summary. I traveled home on Monday morning and then took Tuesday off, so I had some catching up to do...

As for the past years, FrOSCon rocked again! According to the closing keynote, they had around 1.500 (unique) visitors and I had a great time there. I really enjoyed meeting all the old and new faces of the various Open Source communities. The lineup of speakers was excellent, Jon "maddog" Hall's keynote about "Free and Open Source Software in the Developing World" was quite insightful and inspiring.

Most of the time I was busy with speaking at and running the OpenSQL Camp session track in room "HS6", but I managed to sneak out and listen to a few other talks as well. Additionally, I gave a presentation about ZFS on Linux, which had a good crowd and some interesting discussions.

This year, all of the sessions in the main lecture halls were streamed live, so people not able to attend could at least get a glimpse on what was going on these two days. Many times it was a really tough decision to make – there were way too many good sessions going in parallel. So being able to see the recording afterwards somewhat relieved that pain. The FrOSCon team has already begun to publish the video files – they are separated by day and lecture room and can be obtained from http://froscon.tv/.

And we were really lucky with the weather, too - the weekend was warm and sunny, a perfect setting for the social event, which is one of the highlights of FrOSCon. Impressive: this year, the attendees consumed one cubic meter (1000 liters) of Beer!

Finally, I'd like to express my special gratitude to all the speakers of OpenSQL Camp – thank you very much for your support and for devoting your time to participate in our subconference! It was appreciated.


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My MySQL keynote slides and video

Апрель 16th, 2010

Been asked a few times in the last few days about where my slides are from my MySQL keynote from *last* year.

Ooops.

Um, yeah.  Sorry about that.  Here’s a link to ‘The SmugMug Tale’ slides, and you can watch the video below:

Sorry for the extreme lag.  I suck.

The important highlights go something like this:

  • Use transactional replication.  Without it, you’re dead in the water. You have no idea where a crashed slave was.
  • Use a filesystem that lets you do snapshots.  Easily the best way to do backups, spin up new slaves, etc. I love ZFS.  You’ll need transactional replication to really make this painless.
  • Use SSDs if you can. We can’t afford to be fully deployed on SSDs (terabytes are expensive), but putting them in the write path to lower latency is awesome.  The read path might help, too, depending on how much caching you’re already doing.  Love hybrid storage pools.
  • Use Fishworks (aka Open Storage) if you can.  The analytics are unbeatable, plus you get SSDs, snapshots, ZFS, and tons of other goodies.
  • Use transactional replication. This is so important I’m repeating it.  Patch it into MySQL (Google, Facebook, and Percona have patches) or use XtraDB if you use replication.  We use the Percona patch.

Holler in the comments if something in the presentation isn’t clear, I’ll answer.  Apologies again.

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Security For Web Applications Webinar: Wrap Up

Январь 31st, 2010

Thank you for attending the Sun Startup Essentials webinar on Security for Web Applications, here is a list of useful links to learn more about and start implementing the different technologies that were covered during the presentation:


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Security For Web Applications Webinar: Wrap Up

Январь 31st, 2010

Thank you for attending the Sun Startup Essentials webinar on Security for Web Applications, here is a list of useful links to learn more about and start implementing the different technologies that were covered during the presentation:


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Reminder: Tech Webinar on Security for Web Application

Декабрь 27th, 2009

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A key success factor for Web startups is to protect their applications and data from different security threats. Join this webinar to learn about security challenges and about key solutions such as encryption, authentication, certificates, secure and fault-tolerant storage, chrooted environments. The Sun Startup Essentials experts will also cover how to implement these solutions at minimal cost by using standard and open components such as Solaris, Apache, MySQL, ZFS and more.

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ZFS and Solaris: storage optimization for the cloud

Декабрь 21st, 2009

Cloud computing has been one of the most discussed topic over the year, and the discussion is not over because what is really being discussed is the way we will access computing an storage resources in the future. Even famous French intellectuals are giving their opinion and making predictions. Future will decide on predictions's accuracy.

What is usually less discussed is the technology behind cloud-computing, though this is no secret that virtualization is playing a key role. Cloud data-centers will be loaded with virtual machines each of these machines potentially requiring in disk-space what a complete operating system (OS) requires, which can go up to many gigabytes. How much disk-space does a virtual machine image (vdi) really consum? The only good answer is: too much. Too much because the OS is part of the infrastructure as opposed to the software that really brings value for the user and that is located at the application level. In short, a good infrastructure reduces its resource consumption to the minimum while bringing flexibility and availability.

This is where ZFS and Solaris get into the picture. ZFS - which already offers compression on the fly - has just been enriched with deduplication while Solaris comes with a really light-weight technology in terms of virtualization: the zones.

ZFS COMPRESSION AND DEDUPLICATION

Let's go down quickly to some numbers :

  • I have an OpenSolaris 2009.06 vdi (running VirtualBox btw) on my disk. OpenSolaris default install consumes less than 2.5GBytes but this image includes extra software. The size of the vdi - returned by ls -hl - is 4.8GBytes
  • When I activate the ZFS compression on the file-system where the vdi is located the real space consumed goes down to 2.8GBytes (the real space is returned by  du -hs)
  • With compression off, I activate ZFS deduplication - on the ZFS pool on which the file-system is located (dedup is available in build 128 of OpenSolaris). From there, I duplicate the vdi using the VBoxManage clonehd command - a typical operation in a cloud environment. Note that this command does not leverage ZFS cloning capabilities, so without deduplication the allocated space should double.
Before duplication zpool list returns:
$ zpool list
NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
rpool    93G  83.0G  9.99G    89% 1.20x   ONLINE  -
After the vdi duplication:
$ zpool list
NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
rpool    93G  83.1G  9.86G    89% 1.96x  ONLINE  -
The pool allocation grew 0.1GBytes (100MB) instead of 4.8GBytes. I am saving 98% of the additional disk-space (note that I also tried dedup with compress=on but the saving was only about 28%).

SOLARIS ZONES

Now I create a Solaris zone. A zone is another type of virtual machine based on virtualization features available in Solaris (and also in OpenSolaris). The zone vdi is created from the Solaris image that is hosting the zone (ok, a zone does not have a vdi per see, but the objective here is only to measure disk-space consumption). I create a "sparse" zone, which means that it shares part of its image with the host OS. The zone disk-image takes 976MBytes versus more than 4GBytes for the Solaris host (to be precise, I ran my experiment with a Nevada distribution. On OpenSolaris a default zone takes 237MB). I already reduce the disk-space consumption by more than 75%.


From there, I create a second zone by cloning the first one. To do so, I use the zoneadm clone command. Interestingly since both zones are located on a ZFS file-system this command leverages the ZFS cloning capabilities. Yes, nice integration between the zones and ZFS: instead of duplicating the first file-system ZFS creates a clone out of it that shares most of its underlying blocks with the original. The resulting zone vdi takes 7.60M. If I compare this to the 4GBytes of the host OS, I get a saving of 99.8%.

CONCLUSION

Whichever virtualization technology I am using, ZFS now provides me with features that allow me to save a lot of disk-space when it comes to vdi. Solaris zones demonstrate that their reputation of being a light-weight technology is well deserved.

Whether the future of cloud is public, private, or delivered as an appliance, no doubt that ZFS and Solaris will be part of the picture.


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Free Tech Webinars

Октябрь 17th, 2009

You want to use or to know more about Sun technologies? We propose you free Webinars to improve your knowledge and  skills!

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  • Wednesday October 21st 2009: ZFS - Changing the Way You Look at Storage: ZFS is a new kind of file storage subsystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. ZFS also combines, Disks, DRAM and Flash into one storage subsystem easily providing the best overall price performance for storage. Come learn about ZFS and its benefits. See a demo of how easy it is to use and administrate. Hear from a startup on their experience with ZFS.

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