On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Eric D. Mudama <edmud...@bounceswoosh.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3 at 8:03, Gary Driggs wrote: >> >> I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 1&2U includwd SAS >> controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an >> LSI card and an external storage chassis like those available from >> Promise and others. > > > That was what got us with the HP boxes was the unsupported RAID cards.
See also http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.zfs/48231 , Edmund's post in particular. 370-G6 should be able to handle max 14x3TB drives. > We ended up getting Dell T610 boxes with SAS6i/R cards, which are > properly supported in Solaris/OI. > > Supposedly the H200/H700 cards are just their name for the 6gbit LSI > SAS cards, but I haven't tested them personally. Were the Dell cards able to present the disks as JBOD without any third-party-flashing involved? -- Fajar _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
