Hello ! I'm currently using a X2200 with a LSI HBA connected to a Supermicro JBOD chassis, however i want to have more redundancy in the JBOD. So i have looked into to market, and into to the wallet, and i think that the Sun J4400 suits nicely to my goals. However i have some concerns and if anyone can give some suggestions i would trully appreciate. And now for my questions :
* Will i be able to achieve multipath support, if i connect the
J4400 to 2 LSI HBA in one server, with SATA disks, or this is only
possible with SAS disks? This server will have OpenSolaris (any
release i think) .
* The CAM ( StorageTek Common Array Manager ), its only for hardware
management of the JBOD, leaving
disk/volumes/zpools/luns/whatever_name management up to the server
operating system , correct ?
* Can i put some readzillas/writezillas in the j4400 along with sata
disks, and if so will i have any benefit , or should i place
those *zillas directly into the servers disk tray?
* Does any one has experiences with those jbods? If so, are they in
general solid/reliable ?
* The server will probably be a Sun x44xx series, with 32Gb ram, but
for the best possible performance, should i invest in more and
more spindles, or a couple less spindles and buy some readzillas?
This system will be mainly used to export some volumes over ISCSI
to a windows 2003 fileserver, and to hold some NFS shares.
Thank you for all your time,
Bruno
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