Glad you were able to get a good working solution. I definitely think the Supermicro hardware is a big step below HP's offering, but you can't beat that flexibility.
-- Edmund White From: Anh Quach <anhc...@gmail.com<mailto:anhc...@gmail.com>> Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:44 PM To: Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com<mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com>> Cc: Edmund White <ewwh...@mac.com<mailto:ewwh...@mac.com>>, zfs-discuss <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org<mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org>> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7 It's been about a year now and I figured I'd send out a little update for anyone curious. For density and cost considerations, we ended up going with a custom built Supermicro "double sided storage" chassis, which can hold 72 drives in 4U. We initially deployed 10 raidz2 vdevs for about 40TB usable - the remaining 12 drive bays were used for cache, zil, spares. We have been very happy with this set up and are about to double the capacity with the JBOD version of the same Supermicro chassis. I went with 3 LSI 9211-8i controllers to match the Supermicro's 3 backplanes. In the testing phase, we evaluated Solaris 11 and Nexenta - ultimately we went with Nexenta due to the set of tools pre-written, although performance was slightly better on Solaris. -Anh On Jul 3, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Anh Quach <a...@blackandcode.com<mailto:a...@blackandcode.com>> wrote: Thanks Richard and Edmund for the input. Looking at the DL380 now... -Anh On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Edmund White wrote: This depends upon what you want to do. I've used G6 and G7 ProLiants extensively in ZFS deployments (Nexenta, mostly). I'm assuming you'd be using an external JBOD enclosure? When I was at Nexenta, we qualed the DL380 G7, D2600, and D2700. These are some of the better boxes on the market. All works well. I disable the onboard Smart Array P410 RAID controller and replace it with an LSI SAS HBA. If using internal disks, I'll use the 9211-8i. If external, the 9205-8e. Or sometimes, both. FYI, HP also sells an 8-port IT-style HBA (SC-08Ge), but it is hard to locate with their configurators. There might be a more modern equivalent cleverly hidden somewhere difficult to find. -- richard -- ZFS Performance and Training richard.ell...@richardelling.com<mailto:richard.ell...@richardelling.com> +1-760-896-4422 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org<mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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