Hi, This may not be the right place to post, but hoping someone here is running a reliably working system with 12 drives using ZFS that can tell me what hardware they are using.
I have on order with my server vendor a pair of 12-drive servers that I want to use with ZFS for our company file stores. We're trying to use Supermicro PDSME motherboards, and each has two Supermicro MV8 sata cards. Solaris 10U3 he's found doesn't work on these systems. And I just read a post today (and an older post) on this group about how the Marvell based cards lock up. I can't afford lockups since this is very critical and expensive data that is being stored. My goal is a single cpu board that works with Solaris, and somehow get 12-drives plus 2 system boot drives plugged into it. I don't see any suitable sata cards on the Sun HCL. Are there any 4-port PCIe cards that people know reliably work? The Adaptec 1430SA looks nice, but no idea if it works. I could potentially get two 4-port PCIe cards, a 2 port PCI sata card (for boot), and 4-port motherboard - for 14 drives total. And cough up the extra cash for a supported dual-cpu motherboard (though i'm only using one cpu). any advice greatly appreciated.. Thanks! Naveen This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
