In my experience with installing Solaris on recent HP ProLiant servers (specifically the DL385 G1 and G2) is that the driver for disk controller must be downloaded from HPs website and then introduced to the installer in the driver update step of setup, or by patching the miniroot (only applicable to network install). You will also likely need the NIC driver; I believe S10 Update 5 will ship with the Broadcom driver correctly preinstalled, but as of Update 4 you will need to install it after the initial OS installation completes, or patch the miniroot if you're trying a networked install.
William Yang ----- Original Message ----- From: Emmy To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] COMSTAR ready for production use? Okay, I hit a bit of a brick wall 10 minutes in to this project... The server I have (a brand new HP DL380G5) doesn't seem to work with Nevada (or Solaris 10, for that matter). It gets to disk selection, and the list is empty - so I assume it does not see my Smart Array P400 SAS RAID controller. Funnily enough, I also have a Smart Array 6400 Ultra320 RAID controller in there too, with logical drives defined, but it doesn't see that either - even though the HCL says that the 6400 is supported... However, even if it saw the 6400 I couldn't use it (my JBOD is attached to it) - the OS *must* reside on the P400 system drives... Anyone know of a driver update that might help here? I also had another question around caching. Many "high performance" storage system use a relatively large amount of cache to speed up transfers. This can have a significant impact on performance, especially when we're talking about 16GB+ of cache. Can COMSTAR use inband cache (or is it planned)? Thanks again! emmy This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
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