On January 22, 2007 12:45:29 PM -0800 "David J. Orman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
External SAS is pretty much a non-starter on Solaris
(today) so I think
you're left with iscsi or FC if you need more than
just a few drives and
you want to use Sun servers instead of building your
own.
I should add: or scsi of course.
iSCSI is interesting to me, are there any JBOD iSCSI external arrays that
would allow me to use SAS/SATA drives?
There's a few. I'm thinking about a promise m500i. They make smaller
ones also. Not 100% sure though; I might just stick with FC.
I'd actually prefer this to eSATA,
as network cable is even more easily dealt with. Toss in one of the
dual/quad gigabit cards and run iSCSI to a JBOD filled with SATA/SAS
drives == winning solution for me. 4gbit via network avoiding all of the
expense of FC is nothing to sniffle at.
The promise only has 2 gbit ports, and I'm not sure if they can load
balance. So if you want multi-gigabit performance you should look to
other enclosures.
Would this still be workable with ZFS?
My understanding is yes, but I haven't done this personally yet.
Know of any products out there
promise, dnf, nexsan are the ones I know of. Oh I think Adaptec might
have one also.
-frank
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