Don't know if this is the right place for this question, but here goes. If not right place, where should I post it instead?
I was wondering about the practicalities of building a DAS box running Solaris with ZFS, attached to a video editing workstation (Mac Pro) via an Infiniband adapter, as these seem about the fastest forms of connection available (certainly a lot faster than gigabit ethernet). I know 10GbE is around but I think it's not quite here for the masses yet (perhaps I'm mistaken, but it's my impression). I was thinking of building my own Solaris box, chucking in something like 8 x 1TB drives in a RAID-Z1 formation, and I was thinking that with the Infiniband connection I should be able to get fast transfer speeds between the boxes, so assuming ZFS was fast enough, this should give a speedy video editing storage server setup (something like this, but with ZFS: http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/enhance/e8/) So my question really is does Infiniband work well on Solaris, and if so, which is the preferred HBA to use? (most solid/well-supported driver, I suppose) Does anyone see any show-stoppers preventing something like this working or does it look doable? In fact are there any people who've built a working setup like this that they have documented? I was thinking of something like the HighPoint RocketRaid 2322 HBA (http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr2322.htm) running in JBOD mode to keep ZFS happy. Oh dear, seems like it supports Mac OS X but not Solaris :( Thanks, Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
