You can. The twofold caveat is that the built-in HBA is on a tiny proprietary form factor PCIe riser, so you need to take up another PCIe slot instead of that for it, and apparently [I haven't personally tested this] Dell whitelists what cards can be in that riser?
Plus, support for an entire system versus everything except the one component you swap out is attractive. :) - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> >> At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of >> internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced >> to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships servers and > > > If the internal HBA is removable (or can be ignored/disabled), why not just > remove the vendor-provided HBA and install a good one? > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
