On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54:50 +0000, Ben Summers wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm speccing out some new hardware. It seems challenging to get vendor > supported configurations which give you lots of discs on a Solarish OS, > rather than using horrid RAID cards. > > The best config I've found so far seems to be a Fujitsu RX200 with 4 internal > 15k SAS discs (the internal supported card can only do 8 drives if you use > RAID), plus a Fujitsu branded LSI controller connected to an Intel 3.5" JBOD > array for bulk storage and maybe an SSD for ZIL. > > Because I'd like to use all the internal discs for a database as a pair of > mirrors in a single JBOD, I was wondering if anyone boots from USB discs?
SmartOS is designed to run from USB drives. I don't know if their configuration supports mirroring, though. -- Chris Nehren _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
