Some of my servers boot opendiana 151 from mirrored USB. I've tested this on each server that we created a set for.
Ram On Oct 31, 2013 7:01 AM, "Theo Schlossnagle" <je...@omniti.com> wrote: > I believe napp-it based on OmniOS also boots from USB. The mirroring is > hard because I don't think it is a native ZFS boot -- works more like a ram > disk. > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Chris Nehren < > cnehren+omnios-disc...@omniti.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54:50 +0000, Ben Summers wrote: >> > >> > 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? >> >> SmartOS is designed to run from USB drives. I don't know if their >> configuration supports mirroring, though. >> >> -- >> Chris Nehren >> _______________________________________________ >> OmniOS-discuss mailing list >> OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com >> http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss >> > > > > -- > > Theo Schlossnagle > > http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > >
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