Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-12-14 Thread Trevor Pretty
Sorry if you got this twice but I never saw it appear on the alias. OK Today I played with a J4400 connected to a Txxx server running S10 10/09   First off read the release notes I spent about 4 hours pulling my hair out as I could not get stmsboot to work until we read in the release no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-12-09 Thread Trevor Pretty
.m. To: Karl Katzke Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences Karl Don't you just use stmsboot? http://docs.sun.com/source/820-3223-14/SASMultipath.html#50511899_pgfId-1046940 Bruno Next week I'm playing with a M3000 and a J42

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-30 Thread Bruno Sousa
Hi Karl, Thank you for all your input, and i will keep this list updated about this "project". Regards, Bruno Karl Katzke wrote: > Bruno - > > Sorry, I don't have experience with OpenSolaris, but I *do* have experience > running a J4400 with Solaris 10u8. > > First off, you need a LSI HBA for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-29 Thread Karl Katzke
Well, yes, to enable MPxIO. Which then requires a reboot. What about hot-swapping out a disk that was in a ZFS pool? Without rebooting? This was the answer I got early in November. Short version: It's fixed in SNV 126, but not in 10u8 -- which is what I cautioned against. http://mail.opensol

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-29 Thread James C. McPherson
Trevor Pretty wrote: Karl Don't you just use stmsboot? http://docs.sun.com/source/820-3223-14/SASMultipath.html#50511899_pgfId-1046940 Bruno Next week I'm playing with a M3000 and a J4200 in the local NZ distributor's lab. I had planned to just use the latest version of S10, but if I get t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-29 Thread Trevor Pretty
Karl Don't you just use stmsboot? http://docs.sun.com/source/820-3223-14/SASMultipath.html#50511899_pgfId-1046940 Bruno Next week I'm playing with a M3000 and a J4200 in the local NZ distributor's  lab. I had planned to just use the latest version of S10, but if I get the time I might play

Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris with J4400 - Experiences

2009-11-27 Thread Karl Katzke
Bruno - Sorry, I don't have experience with OpenSolaris, but I *do* have experience running a J4400 with Solaris 10u8. First off, you need a LSI HBA for the Multipath support. It won't work with any others as far as I know. I ran into problems with the multipath support because it wouldn't