SAS HBA Recommendations?
To complement the man pages, the supported hardware pages and what I've found in the archives on marc, I'd be interested to read any SAS HBA recommendations people might have. I'm looking at some used Sun x4150 servers which have 8-lane PCIe slots but come with no built-in SAS/SATA controller. I'd be interested in running RAID 10 with a hot spare and I'd like to make use of an OpenBSD driver that supports bioctl. (I'm assuming OpenBSD runs on x4150s - the armorlogic site only lists Opteron Galaxy servers) I'm also curious about why vastly more RAID controllers are supported in the i386 port than the amd64 port. Is this because a lot of them aren't 64bit clean? Do some people as a result choose to run the i386 port on em64t hardware? Sam
Re: SAS HBA Recommendations?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:21:03PM +1000, Sam Vaughan wrote: To complement the man pages, the supported hardware pages and what I've found in the archives on marc, I'd be interested to read any SAS HBA recommendations people might have. LSI MPT. I'm looking at some used Sun x4150 servers which have 8-lane PCIe slots but come with no built-in SAS/SATA controller. I'd be interested in running RAID 10 with a hot spare and I'd like to make use of an OpenBSD driver that supports bioctl. (I'm assuming OpenBSD runs on x4150s - the armorlogic site only lists Opteron Galaxy servers) LSI MFI adapters are nice. I'm also curious about why vastly more RAID controllers are supported in the i386 port than the amd64 port. Is this because a lot of them aren't 64bit clean? Do some people as a result choose to run the i386 port on em64t hardware? I don't know of any raid driver that doesn't work on amd64 that does work on i386. Sam
Re: SAS HBA Recommendations?
On 16/04/2009, at 10:03 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:21:03PM +1000, Sam Vaughan wrote: To complement the man pages, the supported hardware pages and what I've found in the archives on marc, I'd be interested to read any SAS HBA recommendations people might have. LSI MPT. I'm looking at some used Sun x4150 servers which have 8-lane PCIe slots but come with no built-in SAS/SATA controller. I'd be interested in running RAID 10 with a hot spare and I'd like to make use of an OpenBSD driver that supports bioctl. (I'm assuming OpenBSD runs on x4150s - the armorlogic site only lists Opteron Galaxy servers) LSI MFI adapters are nice. Thanks Marco, So now that you've added bioctl support to mpi in 4.5, is there no real reason to preferentially choose a MegaRAID card over a Fusion MPT card, other than by price and features? I really appreciate the work you guys have done to bring all this great SAS support to OpenBSD. Sam
Re: SAS HBA Recommendations?
That's right. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:48:49AM +1000, Sam Vaughan wrote: On 16/04/2009, at 10:03 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:21:03PM +1000, Sam Vaughan wrote: To complement the man pages, the supported hardware pages and what I've found in the archives on marc, I'd be interested to read any SAS HBA recommendations people might have. LSI MPT. I'm looking at some used Sun x4150 servers which have 8-lane PCIe slots but come with no built-in SAS/SATA controller. I'd be interested in running RAID 10 with a hot spare and I'd like to make use of an OpenBSD driver that supports bioctl. (I'm assuming OpenBSD runs on x4150s - the armorlogic site only lists Opteron Galaxy servers) LSI MFI adapters are nice. Thanks Marco, So now that you've added bioctl support to mpi in 4.5, is there no real reason to preferentially choose a MegaRAID card over a Fusion MPT card, other than by price and features? I really appreciate the work you guys have done to bring all this great SAS support to OpenBSD. Sam
