Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Controller and or HD recomendations. ZFS storage server - upgrade.

2015-01-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:21:54 -0500 Chris Nagele wrote: > > Do people recommend any specific PCI-Express controllers that are preferred > > with ZFS and supports large disks. 4TB+ > > In the past we used the LSI 9211-8i, which seems pretty standard for > ZFS / Solaris. More recently we started to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Controller and or HD recomendations. ZFS storage server - upgrade.

2015-01-08 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: > Do people recommend any specific PCI-Express controllers that are preferred > with ZFS and supports large disks. 4TB+ > > any success/bad stories on 4TB+ disks from the manufactures ? > Seagate/WD/Toshiba/HGST ... ? > As far as I kn

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Controller and or HD recomendations. ZFS storage server - upgrade.

2015-01-08 Thread Chris Nagele
> Do people recommend any specific PCI-Express controllers that are preferred > with ZFS and supports large disks. 4TB+ In the past we used the LSI 9211-8i, which seems pretty standard for ZFS / Solaris. More recently we started to use the LSI 9207-8i. Both work well. Chris __

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Controller and or HD recomendations. ZFS storage server - upgrade.

2015-01-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Forgot this blog post in my previous mail which has a lot of god stuff but a bid dated though: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael rasmussen cc http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD3C9A00E mir datanom net http://

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Controller and or HD recomendations. ZFS storage server - upgrade.

2015-01-08 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 15:25:53 + Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: > > Any suggestions and success stories much appreciated. > LSI SAS 2008 and LSI SAS 2308 should be a sure purchase and comes cheap these days. -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael rasmussen c

[OmniOS-discuss] Controller and or HD recomendations. ZFS storage server - upgrade.

2015-01-08 Thread Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
Hello list. I'm in the need to upgrade/expand my storage OmniOS ZFS storage server. which has the following hardware today : Supermicro AOC USAS L8i - LSI SAS 1068E PCIe controller. (which has I think a 2TB HD limit) 8x Hitachi Hitachi HDS72302 2TB disks (Deskstar 7K3000) 1x datapool which is c