Ray, If you are intending to go Nexenta then speak to your local Nexenta SE, we've got HSL qualified solutions which cover our h/w support and we've explicitly qualed some MD1200 configs with Dell for certain deployments to guarantee support via both Dell h/w support and ourselves.
If you don't know who that would be drop me a line and I'll find someone local to you … We tend to go with the LSI cards, but even there there are some issues with regard to Dell supply or over the counter. HTH Craig On 6 Jan 2012, at 01:28, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > We are looking at building a storage platform based on Dell HW + ZFS > (likely Nexenta). > > Going Dell because they can provide solid HW support globally. > > Are any of you using the MD1200 JBOD with head units *without* an > MD3200 in front? We are being told that the MD1200's won't "daisy > chain" unless the MD3200 is involved. > > We would be looking to use some sort of LSI-based SAS controller on the > Dell front-end servers. > > Looking to confirm from folks who have this deployed in the wild. > Perhaps you'd be willing to describe your setup as well and anything we > might need to take into consideration (thinking best option for getting > ZIL/L2ARC devices into Dell R510 head units for example in a supported > manner). > > Thanks, > Ray > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss — Craig Morgan e: cr...@nexenta.com t: +44 (0)7913 383190 s: craig.morgan _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
