Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-06 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Jan 4 at 13:55, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Were the Dell cards able to present the disks as JBOD without any third-party-flashing involved? Yes, the ones I have tested (SAS 6/iR) worked as expected (bare drives exposed to ZFS) with no changes to drive firmware. I have not tested the H200

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-04 Thread Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
Thanks for your reply and time everyone. The only reason I asked about HP is that I have good support trough HP reseller here in Iceland. IBM has also a good reseller here too. DELL, not so good and Oracle from the same reseller is hell here in Iceland. I also have pretty good reseller for Su

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:36 PM, "Eric D. Mudama" wrote: > Supposedly the H200/H700 cards are just their name for the 6gbit LSI SAS > cards, but I haven't tested them personally. They might use the same chipset but their firmware usually doesn't support JBOD. Unless they've changed in the last coupl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Tue, Jan  3 at  8:03, Gary Driggs wrote: >> >> I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 1&2U includwd SAS >> controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an >> LSI card and an external storage chassis like those

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Jan 3 at 8:03, Gary Driggs wrote: I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 1&2U includwd SAS controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an LSI card and an external storage chassis like those available from Promise and others. That was what got us with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 1&2U includwd SAS controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an LSI card and an external storage chassis like those available from Promise and others. -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Frank Lahm
2012/1/3 Christopher Hearn : > On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber >> environment. >> This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency. >> Now that Fiber is damn expe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Christopher Hearn
On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: > Hello. > > I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber > environment. > This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency. > Now that Fiber is damn expensive and for one thing, we do not ne

[zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
Hello. I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber environment. This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency. Now that Fiber is damn expensive and for one thing, we do not need the fiber connection as every client connects with IP. So iSCSI,