Al, <snip> > > Being a friend of simplicity I was thinking about > using a pair (or more) of 3320 > > SCSI JBODs with multiple RAIDZ and/or RAID10 zfs > disk pools on which we'd > > Have you not heard that SCSI is dead? :) <scis == slow&dead, well more or less, that is> > While I understand you don't want to build a SAN, an > alternative would be > a Fibre Channel (FC) box that presents SATA drives. > This would be a DAS > olution with one or two connections to (Qlogic) FC > controllers in the > host - IOW not a SAN and there is no FC switch > required. Many such boxes > are designed to provide expansion to a FC based > hardware RAID box. For > example, the DS4000 EXP100 Storage Expansion Unit > from IBM. In your > application you'd need to find something that > supports FC rates of > 4Gb/Sec, if possible. === Well, secondary approach would be the usage of infortrend boxes of the latest generation. The guys of the european support were very helpful and supplied me with a wealth of information including how they setup the boxes for the throughput test on their webpage. (All of those a 4GB FC based)
The fallback of this fallback was the uage of SAS JBODs (j300s) from Promise or HP's (yes, I know shame on me) 2,5'' 10-HDD sas jbod's, if they'll be equipped with a secondary controller module next year(?). Didn't find any decent SAS controllers though, qlogic has some, but the PCIe model with two external ports isn't supported on Solaris. The single port model would work though... > Another possiblity, which is on my todo list to > checkout, is: > > http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=8&m > odelno=DS-1220 > > Now if I could find a Marvell based equivalent to > the: > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/A > oC-SAT2-MV8.cfm with > external SATA ports, life would be great. Another > card with external SATA > ports that works with Solaris (via the si3124 driver) > is: > http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E168 > 16124003 which only > has a 32-bit PCI connection. :( === I'll check those out - thanks for the wealth of information :-) Jochen This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
