On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Ray Van Dolson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:59:48AM -0700, Blake wrote: >> I've used Silicon Mechanics for my filer. So has another sysadmin I know. >> >> He has had great luck with his boxes, me, not so much. I actually had >> to send mine back to SiMech to get them to sort out a problem with >> disk controllers. >> >> I'd recommend getting a very clear promise from your whitebox vendor >> that they will *fully* support your OS choice. I think PogoLinux >> officially supports OpenSolaris: >> >> http://www.pogolinux.com/solaris-servers.php >> > > I wasn't even aware of PogoLinux, thanks for the tip. I guess I > wouldn't be surprised if the components are similar to the SM boxes > (SuperMicro cases and moboards, etc). In this case, I think the > controller cards are key. We're going with the LSI card on our SM > server (or the PL server if we decide to go that route) which I think > stands a better chance of running under Sol 10 x86 or OpenSolaris than > 3Ware does. > > Thanks! > Ray
I've been hearing good things about LSI and OpenSolaris - we in fact have gotten such cards from SiMech to replace the ones we had trouble with. I'll try to send out the model of the card when I know what it is. _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
