Re: [OmniOS-discuss] areca or lsi

2013-07-18 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I have used LSI HBAs exclusively. Performance and reliability has been very good. The only problem I have consistently seen is if I hotplug a sas expander with or without disks attached it will crash the system at least half the time. I have simple resolved never doing that hot. I have stuck wi

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] areca or lsi

2013-07-18 Thread David Bomba
High quality RAID cards don't just perform simple passthrough, even thou we would expect this to be all that is needed in a ZFS implementation. The controller will (at least in Areca's case) utilise writeback caching to improve performance, driver implementation is also a major factor in performan

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] areca or lsi

2013-07-18 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 18/07/2013 23:48, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Folks, > > We are specing a new omnios server box ... and were just told by > our vendor, that LSI HBAs were much slower (50%) than Areca Controllers > running in JBOD mode ... and that they would therefore recommend > Areca (we use areca for raid6 in l

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] areca or lsi

2013-07-18 Thread David Bomba
We use ARECA 1882 series cards in all our OmniOS storage servers. We moved from a Linux/GlusterFS environment to OmniOS/Comstar and our benchmarks have been very similar between the two using these controllers. I highly recommend them, they have been very reliable for us, and performance has been

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] areca or lsi

2013-07-18 Thread Fábio Rabelo
This is my guideline article in this subject : http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 My box uses the IBM 1015 ones, works very good Fábio Rabelo 2013/7/18 Tobias Oetiker > Folks, > > We are specing a new omnios server box ... and were just told by > our vendor, that LSI HBAs were much slower (50%)

[OmniOS-discuss] areca or lsi

2013-07-18 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, We are specing a new omnios server box ... and were just told by our vendor, that LSI HBAs were much slower (50%) than Areca Controllers running in JBOD mode ... and that they would therefore recommend Areca (we use areca for raid6 in linux boxes, but have never used it in JBOD mode with il

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] bug tracking

2013-07-18 Thread Bill Rees
Why, yes! Thanks. Bill On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Dale Ghent wrote: > On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Bill Rees wrote: > > > Is there an external interface to the bug tracking system? > > Are you looking for this? > > http://omnios.omniti.com/query.php > > /dale > > __

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] customizing rpool for iso install

2013-07-18 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 7/18/2013 9:29 AM, Jim Oltman wrote: ./omnios_zpool_install.pl > And I get this: mount: ./omnios_zpool_install.pl Device busy Hmm, my first guess is that the overlay mount the script executes uses the name the script was executed as and mount doesn't like the relative path. Try runnin

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] customizing rpool for iso install

2013-07-18 Thread Jim Oltman
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > While the recommended way to customize rpool configuration is to utilize a > network install with kayak, putting together a complete dhcp/tftp/http > network install environment is a bit overkill for installing one box or > doing some testi

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] bug tracking

2013-07-18 Thread Dale Ghent
On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Bill Rees wrote: > Is there an external interface to the bug tracking system? Are you looking for this? http://omnios.omniti.com/query.php /dale ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lis

[OmniOS-discuss] bug tracking

2013-07-18 Thread Bill Rees
Is there an external interface to the bug tracking system? Thanks, Bill Rees ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] SuperMicro IPMI Keyboard

2013-07-18 Thread Uwe Reh
Hi this is a Supermicro issue. I have similar experiences with OI, S11 and several linux distributions. I'm using the KVM-Console with several Supermicroboards and different Versions of Java on Windows. None of this combinations is perfect. Sometimes it helps to use a 'wrong' layout of the keyb