On 03/20/2014 12:28 PM, Len Weincier wrote:
I am trawling through the SuperMicro catalog and there are so many
trade offs and not really anything that stands out. I do like the the
2u option (E1R12L) that you have chosen at the moment as the best for
now. What other options are there if you can share ?
[not a commercial]
Our kit is very SmartOS friendly. We typically test new OS releases
about every quarter, and work with some of our partners to get more
drivers in (cxgbe, ...). We have a number of customers using the kit
with SmartOS for cloudy things.
[/not a commercial]
If you are looking at SuperMicro (SMC), focus on the LSI 2208 in IT
mode. We've used the 2U twin for some customers, and it works well,
though as with all SuperMicro kit, the cooling leaves a great deal to be
desired (which is why we tend to re-engineer it when we use their kit).
Note: if you do use the LSI 2208, get a copy of the sas2ircu, so you
can light up devices ID LEDs correctly (we are adapting something we
wrote on Linux a while ago to run on SmartOS to help users correctly
identify which drive is which as this turns out to be non trivial for
zfs and non-HW raid).
We've had a few nasty surprises on BIOS revisions on SMC kit, in that
BIOS tables set during POST aren't always what one might expect. Which
leads to some very interesting/painful crashes.
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Scalable Informatics, Inc.
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