[storage-discuss] Multilane (PMP) eSATA

2010-06-17 Thread A Braunsdorf
I've seen a similar question come up every few months, but it's about time for me to make some purchasing decisions, so now it's my turn. I need a new fileserver and would like to run ZFS on 10 or 15 drives (two or three 5 drive zraids). I was planning to use an Addonics RAID Rack with

[storage-discuss] ZPOOL configuration advise

2010-06-17 Thread bso...@epinfante.com
Hi all, Once again here's yet another question for zpool configuration,and hope to read your comments soon. Now going to the business I have a system with the following specs: - 32 GB ram,8cpus - 2 hba's with 512mb ram each with battery - 2 jbod's with 12 disks (SATA 1Tb) The purpose for this

[storage-discuss] Port Multiplier

2010-06-17 Thread Tim Wright
I have been following the recently posted threads on Port Multipliers and Solaris but I am slightly confused about the actual availability of the Port Multiplier driver (even though it might blacklisted). I am currently using OpenSolaris 2009.06 with a Supermicro X7DWE motherboard, ADSA4R5

Re: [storage-discuss] ZPOOL configuration advise

2010-06-17 Thread bso...@epinfante.com
Hi, Thanks for the input,and indeed my first choice is use mirror vdevs and avoid raidz.However the price for that can be too high... Iam running some benchmarks with iozone,filebench etc, but it's always a question of what defines good performance? For instance since all.network is gigabit I

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI 9211-4i

2010-06-17 Thread Maurice Volaski
?We are migrating from a MegaRAID solution (mega_sas driver) to using LSI 9211-4i HBAs (mpt_sas driver) and a common operation was to use the MegaCli command to turn a LED on so the datacenter staff could After much searching around I found the sas2ircu command. Did you get this to

Re: [storage-discuss] LSI 9211-4i

2010-06-17 Thread James C. McPherson
On 18/06/10 09:15 AM, Maurice Volaski wrote: ?We are migrating from a MegaRAID solution (mega_sas driver) to using LSI 9211-4i HBAs (mpt_sas driver) and a common operation was to use the MegaCli command to turn a LED on so the datacenter staff could After much searching around I found the