Hello, I'm speccing out some new hardware. It seems challenging to get vendor supported configurations which give you lots of discs on a Solarish OS, rather than using horrid RAID cards.
The best config I've found so far seems to be a Fujitsu RX200 with 4 internal 15k SAS discs (the internal supported card can only do 8 drives if you use RAID), plus a Fujitsu branded LSI controller connected to an Intel 3.5" JBOD array for bulk storage and maybe an SSD for ZIL. Because I'd like to use all the internal discs for a database as a pair of mirrors in a single JBOD, I was wondering if anyone boots from USB discs? The RX200 has a single internal USB slot for such things, and you can get some very low profile USB drives for an external port: http://www.sandisk.co.uk/products/usb/drives/cruzer-fit/ http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/dtmc_en.pdf Would it be a sensible option to install OmniOS with a mirrored USB rpool? Zone roots would go on the internal discs. Thanks for any advice and/or warnings, Ben -- http://bens.me.uk _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
