Hi Neil,
No problem, thanks for the info. I knew these cards were a gamble, but if I
can get them working, it will be worth it.
I've today spoken to the UK office of VMetro about drivers but I'm not holding
out too much hope. They were very friendly and polite, but explained that they
I'm not personally aware of any. The ioDrive from Fusion-io looks the most
promising, but it's a new product from a new company so it's likely to be a
while (if ever) before Solaris drivers appear. I've contacted them to ask
about Solaris drivers, but haven't had a response yet.
I summarised
PS. I note on the Fusion-io web page that they're working with HP to
accelerate their servers. Would be nice if somebody from Sun could do the same
(or let us know if Sun are working on similar technology).
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete Hartman wrote:
I'm curious which enclosures you've had problems with?
Mine are both Maxtor One Touch; the 750 is slightly different in that it has
a FireWire port as well as USB.
I've had VERY bad experiences
Forwarding here, as suggested by chaps on storage-discuss.
Just to clarify, I was running filebench directly on the x4500, not from
an initiator, so this is probably not a COMSTAR thing.
Ceri
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That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
Ross wrote:
PS. I note on the Fusion-io web page that they're working with HP to
accelerate their servers. Would be nice if somebody from Sun could do the
same (or let us know if Sun are working on similar technology).
I thought the cat was already out of the bag... :-)
r == Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
np == Neil Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
np 2. I received the board and driver from another group within
np Sun. It would be better to contact Micro Memory (or whoever
np took them over) directly, as it's not my place to give out 3rd
np
ah == Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ah I've had bad experiences with the Seagate products.
I've had bad experiences with all of them.
(maxtor, hgst, seagate, wd)
ah My guess is that it's related to duty cycle -
Recently I've been getting a lot of drives from companies like
Here is what I have configured:
T2000 with OBP 4.28.6 2008/05/23 12:07 with 2 - 72 GB disks as the root
disks
OpenSolaris Nevada Build 91
Solaris Express Community Edition snv_91 SPARC
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Miles Nordin wrote:
ah == Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ah I've had bad experiences with the Seagate products.
I've had bad experiences with all of them.
(maxtor, hgst, seagate, wd)
ah My guess is that it's related to duty cycle -
Recently
I think the problem Miles is that this isn't Sun hardware, and I completely
understand that as a Sun employee, Neil really can't be seen to distribute
something that's untested and unsupported, and quite possibly under NDA.
On the other hand, if I get hold of these drivers, I'm under no such
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the problem Miles is that this isn't Sun hardware, and I completely
understand that as a Sun employee, Neil really can't be seen to distribute
something that's untested and unsupported, and quite possibly under NDA.
On the
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Adrian Danielson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is what I have configured:
T2000 with OBP 4.28.6 2008/05/23 12:07 with 2 - 72 GB disks as the root
disks
OpenSolaris Nevada Build 91
...
2. After enabled MPxIO (stmsboot -e), the 2 root disks now
From an email exchange with a HAL developer...
This comes about because I boot back and forth between Windows
and Solaris and when on the Windows side I have the drive unplugged.
On occasion, I forget to plug it back in before returning to Solaris.
I wonder then, if Solaris should export
Adrian Danielson wrote:
Here is what I have configured:
T2000 with OBP 4.28.6 2008/05/23 12:07 with 2 - 72 GB disks as the
root disks
OpenSolaris Nevada Build 91
Solaris Express Community Edition snv_91 SPARC
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
I've run across something that would save me days of trouble.
Situation, the contents of one ZFS file system needs to be moved to another ZFS
file system. The
destination can be the same Zpool, even a brand new ZFS file system. A command
to move the
data from one ZFS file system to another,
Here's the announcement for those new Sun JBOD devices mentioned the
other day.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080709.1.xml
ckl
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Raquel K. Sanborn wrote:
I've run across something that would save me days of trouble.
Situation, the contents of one ZFS file system needs to be moved to another
ZFS file system. The
destination can be the same Zpool, even a brand new ZFS file system. A
command to move the
data from one
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Raquel K. Sanborn wrote:
Situation, the contents of one ZFS file system needs to be moved to
another ZFS file system. The destination can be the same Zpool, even
a brand new ZFS file system. A command to move the data from one ZFS
file system to another, WITHOUT
So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now using
a PCI-E backplane. Anyone happen to know what the chipset is? Any chance
we'll see an 8-port PCI-E SATA card finally??
The new Sun Fire X4540 server uses PCI Express IO technology for more than
triple the system
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Chad Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the announcement for those new Sun JBOD devices mentioned the
other day.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080709.1.xml
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The X4540 uses on-board LSI SAS controllers (C1068E).
- Eric
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:59:26PM -0500, Tim wrote:
So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now using
a PCI-E backplane. Anyone happen to know what the chipset is? Any chance
we'll see an 8-port PCI-E
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The X4540 uses on-board LSI SAS controllers (C1068E).
- Eric
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:59:26PM -0500, Tim wrote:
So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now
using
a PCI-E backplane. Anyone
r == Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
r I think the problem Miles is that this isn't Sun hardware
In this case it's not, but please do not muddle my point: Marvell SATA
and LSI Logic mpt SATARAID and many other (most?) drivers have the
same problem.
Right now there are, AIUI:
*
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now using
a PCI-E backplane. Anyone happen to know what the chipset is? Any chance
we'll see an 8-port PCI-E SATA card finally??
The new Sun Fire X4540 server uses
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Chad Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the announcement for those new Sun JBOD devices mentioned the
other day.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080709.1.xml
ckl
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Tim wrote:
So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now
using a PCI-E backplane. Anyone happen to know what the chipset is?
Any chance we'll see an 8-port PCI-E SATA card finally??
One NVidia MCP-55 and two NVidia IO-55s replace the thumper's
AMD-8132 HT to PCI-X
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:19:53PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
Any word on why PCI-Express was not extended to the expansion slots?
I put PCI-Express cards in every other server that I connect to 10
gigabit Ethernet or the SAN (FC tape drives).
The webpage is incorrect. There are three 8x
Thanks, glad someone else thought of it first.
I guess I will have to do things the hard way.
Raquel
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Might also want to have them talk to byteandswitch.
*
**We went to the next-generation Intel processors [and] we have used the
latest generation of our Solaris ZFS software, he explains, adding that the
J4000 JBODs can also be connected to the X4540.*
Either the 4540 is using XEON's now, someone
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:52:27PM -0500, Tim wrote:
Is the 4540 still running a rageXL? I find that somewhat humorous if it's
an Nvidia chipset with ATI video :)
According to SMBIOS there is an on-board device of type AST2000 VGA.
- Eric
--
Eric Schrock, Fishworks
Tim wrote:
Is the 4540 still running a rageXL? I find that somewhat humorous if
it's an Nvidia chipset with ATI video :)
Yes, it is part of the chip which handles the management interface.
I don't find this to be a contradiction, though. AMD bought ATI
and we're using AMD Quad-core CPUs.
Adrian Danielson wrote:
1. After the install I created a zfs mirror of the root disk c0t0d0 to
c0t1d0, format shows the mirrored disk with sectors instead of cylinders, is
this normal or correct? Is there a way to reverse this back to cylinders if
it is not? Same goes for the external
ZFS uses EFI when a storage pool is created with whole disks.
ZFS uses the old-style VTOC label when a storage pool is created
with slices.
To be able to boot from a ZFS root pool, the storage pool must be
created with slices. This is a new requirement in ZFS land, and is
described in the doc
Peter Tribble wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Adrian Danielson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is what I have configured:
T2000 with OBP 4.28.6 2008/05/23 12:07 with 2 - 72 GB disks as the
root disks
OpenSolaris Nevada Build 91
...
2. After enabled MPxIO (stmsboot -e),
Eric Schrock wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:52:27PM -0500, Tim wrote:
Is the 4540 still running a rageXL? I find that somewhat humorous if it's
an Nvidia chipset with ATI video :)
According to SMBIOS there is an on-board device of type AST2000 VGA.
Yes, I think I found
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tim wrote:
So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now
using a PCI-E backplane. Anyone happen to know what the chipset is?
Any chance we'll see an 8-port PCI-E SATA card finally??
One NVidia
Hello,
I plan to use (Open)Solaris for a home file server. I wanted cool and
quiet hardware, so I picked a mini-atx motherboard and case, an AMD64
CPU and 4 GB of RAM. My case has room for three hard drives and I
have chosen 3x WD 750 Green Power hard drives. The file server will
serve out via
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Gilberto Mautner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Anyway, are there other devices out there that you would recommend to use as
a slog device, other than this nvram card, that would present similar
performance gains?
Not that this will get you similar performance
Also worth noting is that the enterprise-class drives have protection from
heavy load that the consumer-class drives don't. In particular, there's no
temperature sensor on the voice coil for the consumer drives, which means that
under heavy seek load (constant i/o), the drive will eventually
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perfect. Which means good ol' supermicro would come through :) WOHOO!
AOC-USAS-L8i
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm
Is this card new? I'm not finding it at the usual places like Newegg, etc.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perfect. Which means good ol' supermicro would come through :) WOHOO!
AOC-USAS-L8i
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm
Is
Dunno how old it is, but James is right, no Raid which is why it's cheaper.
Also why I like it ;)
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perfect. Which means good ol' supermicro would come through
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Florin Iucha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question is, how should I partition the drives, and what tuning
parameters should I use for the pools and file systems? From reading
the best practices guides [1], [2], it seems that I cannot have the
root file system
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:53:30PM -0500, Tim wrote:
Dunno how old it is, but James is right, no Raid which is why it's cheaper.
Also why I like it ;)
I have the HP badged LSA SAS3080X in my Ultra80, it's a fantastic card.
If I ever get a box with PCI-E (I'm looking to upgrade the U80 soon, so
Thank you for starting this thread. I hope you get some good feedback.
Your questions are quite frequently asked in this forum, but I'm very
interested in the topic. Anway, the best answer varies from month
to month. So I hope you get some good feedback.
I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote:
I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since it does not
recognize the SATA disks attached to the southbridge.
A fix for this problem went into build 93.
Which forum/mailing list discusses SATA issues like the above?
#opensolaris
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:02:24PM -0700, Brandon High wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Florin Iucha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason for using a whole disk is that ZFS will turn on the drive's
cache. When using slices, the cache is normally disabled. If all
slices are using ZFS, you
Thanks everyone for your replies, I have a better understanding of how to test
out ZFS with MPxIO.
Best Regards,
Adrian
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Florin Iucha wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote:
I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since it does not
recognize the SATA disks attached to the southbridge.
A fix for this problem went into build 93.
Which forum/mailing list discusses SATA issues
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf
Another question:
When trying to mirror the 2nd root disk, I get the following error:
root[tst01:/root]# zpool attach rpool c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0
cannot attach c0t1d0s0 to c0t0d0s0: device is too small
Since c0t1d0s0 has been reduced by
Adrian Danielson wrote:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf
Another question:
When trying to mirror the 2nd root disk, I get the following error:
root[tst01:/root]# zpool attach rpool c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0 cannot attach
c0t1d0s0 to c0t0d0s0: device is too small
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