are there any gotchas attaching a USB mass storage device to a GZ as a simple means of doing zfs pool backups? thinking of using a small qnap enclosure

also I have a auxilary pool that has it's root dataset delegated to a native zone, presumably this means I can't zfs send that from the GZ (direct pipe transfer)? So I would need to use ssh between the zone and GZ, or is there a better/faster way?

I just pushed 22.4.0 to images.smartos.org if anyone wants to get them early while I write up the release notes

openzfs/zfs #14243 looks like a good win for nvme pools, not sure how easy that would be to bring into illumos

nbjoerg: I get an fe80 local and an 2a02 global ipv6 address on boot, but both are similar to the MAC address of the network adapter. I can use iPerf in a linux vm or container both in client and server mode over ipv6 and ping ipv6.google.com, so its working in general. But I only got this working by importing a configfile with an ips-array(dhcp, addrconf) into vmadm on creation.

I would like to be able to provision a new vm with a static and unique ipv6 address through the api.

right, those would be slaac

they are derived from the mac

bahamat: I am using CoaL in VMWare workstation. If I manage to enable the plugin(which enables allow_ip_spoofing) you mentioned, how will I be able to communicate with cloud-init to get it to work? Could I , for example, add the cloud config(json formatted ofc) to the metadata input key in a CreateMachine call to CloudAPI?

Put your cloud config in the user-script.

Which user-script do you mean?

How are you provisioning?

I am provisioning through vmadm in SmartOS for testing purposes, but I am trying to find a way to integrate some kind of ipv6 provisioning into this platform we work with, which uses rest api to let Triton provision instances.

In the vm json, customer_metadata.user-script

Add your cloud-config to that key.

Honestly, I wouldn't use cloud-init at all for this.

I would use the plugin that I gave you, then I would do like customer_metadata.static_inet6

Then a user-script that's a shell script to plumb up the interface.

And turn on router advertisements so that you don't have to explicitly define the gateway.

Then you can provision from the api with the cli tool

It would be something like this:

triton create ubuntu-22.04 sample-1G --name web0 -m static_inet --script path/to/user-script.sh

Then your user-script.sh would do like 'ip addr add $int $ip6' (or whatever syntax)

Or you could add a custom systemd service to manage the v6 address.

That's what I do with SmartOS instances: github.com/bahamat/smartos-ipv6-smf

I have to leave, but I'll be back in about 2h if you want more help with this.

And if you're considering deploying this in a production environment for a business, I strongly urge you to contact us. We can help you make sure your POC is successful.

Thanks, I will look into these two suggestions in the meantime.

jperkin: I added a note to triton/pkgsrc issue 230