Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Anil Jangity
I've been looking at them as well. I am looking specifically at their R309.v3 with the LSI 9211 HBA with SSD. Of course, this will all be with ZFS, so what's the recommended configuration with that? Since I am opting out of a battery backed HBA, will a decent pair of SSD for slog be good alterna

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Mosetick
I would like to add another recommendation for Silicon Mechanics. They are always happy to work with me when I mention that my new server must work well with OpenIndiana. I don't know if they will ship to the EU, but I don't see why they wouldn't. Bonus for me pers

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: That's why I try and avoid servers like those from SuperMicro - since the box is designed to be generic, you get plenty of loose ends, overly long cables, missing wire guides, etc. Essentially, it's a The number of system vendors who are capable of satis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 10:03 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of >> internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced >> to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
You can. The twofold caveat is that the built-in HBA is on a tiny proprietary form factor PCIe riser, so you need to take up another PCIe slot instead of that for it, and apparently [I haven't personally tested this] Dell whitelists what cards can be in that riser? Plus, support for an entire sys

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships servers and If the internal HBA is removable (or can b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 09:08 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: > Silicon Mechanics > Do they ship to and offer support in the EU? Cheers, -- Saso ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Creamer
Silicon Mechanics On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who > ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the > offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while > their ha

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while their hardware is generally good, their Solaris support is often times a story of extensi