Hi all, (down to the wire here on EDU grant pricing :)
i'm looking at buying a pair of 7110's in the EDU grant sale. The price is sure right. I'd use them in a mirrored, cold-failover config. I'd primarily be using them to serve a vmware cluster; the current config is two standalone ESX servers with local storage, 450G of SAS RAID10 each. the 7110 price point is great, and i think i have a reasonable understanding of how this stuff ought to work. I'm curious about a couple things that would be "unsupported." Specifically, whether they are "not supported" if they have specifically been crippled in the software. 1) SSD's I can imagine buying an intel SSD, slotting it into the 7110, and using it as a ZFS L2ARC (? i mean the equivalent of "readzilla") 2) expandability I can imagine buying a SAS card and a JBOD and hooking it up to the 7110; it has plenty of PCI slots. finally, one question - I presume that I need to devote a pair of disks to the OS, so I really only get 14 disks for data. Correct? thanks! danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs July 19-23, 2009 - Indianapolis, Indiana http://jointtechs.es.net/indiana2009/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
