On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Lasse Osterild <lass...@unixzone.dk> wrote: > > On 25/01/2011, at 19.04, Philip Brown wrote: >> >> Any other suggestions for (large-)enterprise-grade, supported JBOD hardware >> for ZFS these days? >> Either fibre or SAS would be okay. >> -- > > I'd go with some Dell MD1200's, for us they ended up being cheaper (incl > disks) than a SuperMicro case with the same model disks, and it's way nicer > than the low-quality SuperMicro stuff. > It works perfectly fine with LSI 9200-8e SAS2 controllers under Solaris. > The SuperMicro boxes won't do multi-pathing to the same LSI 9200-8e > controller.
As a matter of interest, what sort of system configurations are you building? Are you daisy-chaining JBOD units? I like the overall idea, but with direct attach and multi-pathing that's one HBA (and one slot in the server) for each MD1200, which chews up slots pretty quick. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
