Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Alexander Lesle
Hello Roman Naumenko, can you tell us your hardware config at the moment. I think thats the better way where we can give you some tips to expand your home storage for less Bucks and for peaceful sleep at night. On Januar, 01 2014, 22:11 Roman Naumenko wrote in [1]: Looking for cheap way of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 4:10 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote: Roman Naumenko said the following, on 01-01-14 4:11 PM: Hello, Looking for cheap way of expanding current home storage server running on openindiana 151_a5. jbod (12 bay are 400$) with SFF-8088 is most cost-effective. Now the question what card

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 2:44 PM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: Hello, I recently received an HP MSA70 to test. It also allows cascaded config, which is a further point of interest. Has anyone already tried it with success and, especially, with which controller? Thanks I've been running cascaded MSA60s (which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 12:13 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 03-01-14 5:47 AM: On 1/3/14, 4:10 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote: Roman Naumenko said the following, on 01-01-14 4:11 PM: Hello, Looking for cheap way of expanding current home storage server running on openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/01/03 16:02 +0100, Roman Naumenko a écrit: Power is 200W, I can live with that. I'll be pedantic on this point, as I've researched it for my own little home NAS and checked with a power meter :-) 200W is the *max* power rating. The enclosure itself, with its couple of LEDs and fans,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Roman Naumenko
- Original Message - On 1/3/14, 12:13 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 03-01-14 5:47 AM: So you'd rather pay $650 instead of $400 for the exact same 10TB instead? (i.e. 10x1TB ($65) vs. 5x2TB ($80)) Why are you so heavily focused on the number of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 12:13 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 03-01-14 5:47 AM: So you'd rather pay $650 instead of $400 for the exact same 10TB instead? (i.e. 10x1TB ($65) vs. 5x2TB ($80)) Why are you so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread David Scharbach
With raidz2 my system is speed limited by the network. It is 3.5 based cheepo drives. If you are going to run a bunch of vms on the system, then you may need the iops but for pure storage in the home, go with big 3.5 drives. With 3tb drives, you can get 9TB of double parity storage with 5

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Roman Naumenko
- Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the wrong things. Get a few good high-capacity disks and a low-power enclosure and don't worry about buying a SAS HBA (or if you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the wrong things. Get a few good high-capacity disks and a low-power enclosure and don't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Roman Naumenko
- Original Message - On 1/3/14, 12:13 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 03-01-14 5:47 AM: On 1/3/14, 4:10 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote: Roman Naumenko said the following, on 01-01-14 4:11 PM: Hello, Looking for cheap way of expanding current home

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Roman Naumenko
- Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the wrong things. Get a few good high-capacity disks and a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the wrong things. Get

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Roman Naumenko
- Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - Overall I think you're trying to save money

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 6:04 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Roman Naumenko
- Original Message - On 1/3/14, 6:04 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to add an USB Device to KVM guest

2014-01-03 Thread Stefan Everhartz
I have KVM running on Openindiana and created OpenSuseVM as a guest. But it is not possible to add any special USB devices to OpenSuseVM other than -usbdevice tablet. How to add a USB device like this: cfgadm -al shows an external USB Device attach to the openindiana host. usb9/1.3

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread David Scharbach
How does a 5 drive bay work over sas? Does it have an internal expander for the 5th drive?? -- David Scharbach Mine Senior Electrical Engineer PCS Cory Division On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Laurent Blume
On 03/01/2014 18:46, Roman Naumenko wrote: Ok, thanks for this clarification. Its obvious that vendor provides max power consumption. Which box did you buy for you storage, MSAxx? (or is it just server with the disks). A basic no-brand SAS enclosure from span.com connected to an LSI 3801E

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread w...@vandenberge.us
I have a system built using the Xyratex RS-1220-E311-XPN-2 enclosures. These have twelve SAS/SATA slots, dual power supplies and one or two RS-SCM-E311-XPN-1220 6Mb/s SAS expander/controllers. Just add an LSI 9200-8e (or equivalent) and an SFF8088-SFF8088 cable and you're in business. They've been

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 8:12 PM, David Scharbach wrote: How does a 5 drive bay work over sas? Does it have an internal expander for the 5th drive?? Well, speaking about expanders, you can attach any number of drives off of them, not just some nice multiple of 4 :) but this particular box doesn't have an

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sd.conf trouble and illumos bug #3220

2014-01-03 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Hi all, I recently acquired a consumer 128 GB SanDisk SATA SSD to replace my root pool disks. I anticipated having to enter the VID and PID into sd.conf as with other 4K or higher drives. Unfortunately, no matter what I enter there, the drive retains the 512 byte block size and ashift

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
On 2014-01-03 18:53, Saso Kiselkov wrote: On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - Overall I think you're trying to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 1/3/14, 11:04 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: On 2014-01-03 18:53, Saso Kiselkov wrote: On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original Message - On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote: - Original

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] worspace switcher preferences

2014-01-03 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On út, 2013-12-31 at 18:35 +0100, Marc Lobelle wrote: Hi all, In the bottom right corner of openindiana, solaris etc, sits the workspace switcher widget. By default it shows 4 workspaces in one row. Right clicking in it pops a menu including the preferences .Clicking on prefs pops

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2014-01-03 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, finally. Good work from Solaris security team. Same as ksh93, SSH does not belong to ON gate because of it's external maintenance and own build system. Hopefully one day Illumos gate admins will accept it. Best regards, Milan On pá, 2013-12-20 at 17:24 -0600, Jerry Kemp wrote: Stirring up