Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-08 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/07/2013 04:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work > well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS > 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and > cheap too! I've had trouble with one of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-08 Thread Andrzej Sochon
Hi, Thank you very much for hints, I will try. Best Regards, a. -Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:16 PM To: Tim Fletcher Cc: Andrzej Sochon; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a D

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-01-08 Thread mark
> > On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > > > FYI, HP also sells an 8-port IT-style HBA (SC-08Ge), but it is hard to locate  > with their configurators. There might be a more modern equivalent cleverly > hidden somewhere difficult to find. >  -- richard > Richard, Do you know

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-01-08 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/08/2013 04:27 PM, mark wrote: >> On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> FYI, HP also sells an 8-port IT-style HBA (SC-08Ge), but it is hard to >> locate >> with their configurators. There might be a more modern equivalent cleverly >> hidden somewhere difficult to find. >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-01-08 Thread Edmund White
This has been covered here, but it works. I typically use LSI-9211 and 9205 controller in G6 and G7 ProLiant systems for ZFS use. I usually bypass the onboard controller. I don't use the HP expander card since the LSI cards provide enough ports. That expander card is good for ZFS, though. See: htt

[zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-08 Thread John Giannandrea
I seem to have managed to end up with a pool that is confused abut its children disks. The pool is faulted with corrupt metadata: pool: d state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted and the pool cannot be opened. action: Destroy and re-create the pool from a backup source.

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-01-08 Thread Mark -
Good call Saso. Sigh... I guess I wait to hear from HP on supported IT mode HBAs in their D2000s or other jbods. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 01/08/2013 04:27 PM, mark wrote: > >> On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > >> > >> FYI, HP also sells an 8-p

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-01-08 Thread Edmund White
The D2600 and D2700 enclosures are fully supported as Nexenta JBODs. I run them in multiple production environments. I *could* use an HP-branded LSI controller (SC08Ge

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-08 Thread Gregg Wonderly
Have you tried importing the pool with that drive completely unplugged? Which HBA are you using? How many of these disks are on same or separate HBAs? Gregg Wonderly On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:05 PM, John Giannandrea wrote: > > I seem to have managed to end up with a pool that is confused abut

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-08 Thread Krunal Desai
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well > (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If > you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! > That method that was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:36:18AM -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote: > On 01/07/2013 04:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > > PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work > > well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS > > 9211. If you can get them, they're one h

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool metadata has duplicate children

2013-01-08 Thread John Giannandrea
Gregg Wonderly wrote: > Have you tried importing the pool with that drive completely unplugged? Thanks for your reply. I just tried that. zpool import now says: pool: d id: 13178956075737687211 state: FAULTED status: The pool metadata is corrupted. action: The pool cannot be im

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-01-08 Thread Richard Elling
On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Edmund White wrote: > The D2600 and D2700 enclosures are fully supported as Nexenta JBODs. I run > them in multiple production environments. Yes, I worked on the field qualifications for these… very nice JBODs :-) > I *could* use an HP-branded LSI controller (SC08