I have a supermicro 743S2 chasis with 8 hot swappable SCSI bays. I talked to supermicro yesterday, I can add 936E1/E2 (15 3.5' SAS/SATA bays) or 216E1/E2 (24 2.5' SAS/SATA bays) as disk shelf. You can order jbod kit for the two chassis and convert them to diskshelf. E2 model supports SAS only while E1 supports SAS/SATA. Both chassis use LSI expander which should be suported by Solaris.
Yes, I use jumbo frame for vmkernel nic, performs well enough, I configured multipathing between qlogic FC and iSCSI. FC is always primary and iSCSI as failover path, works wonderfully. NFS share is used to store ISO images and VM templates. Performance for my VMware guests are excellent, for every VM, boot time is about 10 seconds, write/read speed is also excellent inside guest VMs. The only tweak I made to guests is I/O timeout, default is 30 seconds but I made it 120 seconds in case FC path fails over to iSCSI. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
