In the past I haven't had access to a SAS/SATA expander system to try with Solaris. One of my storage systems is getting upgraded to 16 disk 3U chassis, and I was figuring out what might be possible.
>From what you are telling me, I can assume that a Supermicro 3U chassis with two LSI SASX28 and two LSI 1068E (in IT mode) should be workable with Solaris. Thanks On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, James C. McPherson <[email protected] > wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 08:58:23 +1200 > Nicholas Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, James C. McPherson < > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > > Second question, with a dual port expander will multi-path > functionality > > > > work with Solaris? > > > > > > yes, as long as the expander is attached using the mpt(7d) driver. > > > > > > > > How does the controller-disk device numbering work in this situation? > > Especially if you use two controllers. > > We'd expect to seeing standard MPxIO paths, as long > as you've enabled MPxIO. > > Could you expand on what you're really wanting to know? > > The Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide has > a lot of very useful information: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-1931 > > > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog > Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel >
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