There are several types of SC216A backplanes. I use the SC216A which then has 6 mini-SAS connectors (4 drives each) and use that with two LSI 9211-8. Works great so far. No port expanders there, so nothing that could fail. And no potential throughput bottlenecks.
>-- Original Message -- >Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:28:02 -0400 >From: Doug Hughes <[email protected]> >To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Supermicro SC216 chassis with multiple > HBAs? >Reply-To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <[email protected]> > > >On 10/26/2011 7:40 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: >> Has anyone here tried using two LSI HBAs (9211-8i) in a single SC216 >> chassis? I'm being told there's only one iPass cable off the backplane >> and so only one HBA can be used...but with the number of folks adding >> in SATA SSDs it seems like there must be a solution so you don't have >> to mix SATA and SAS on the same HBA. >> >> Any insight is greatly appreciated. >> > >My integrator is configuring with 3 of the 9211-8i..Either they know >something, or they don't know something.. But I have 3 integrators >essentially offering the samething, so I assume they all must know >something. > > >_______________________________________________ >OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
