David J. Orman wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking at Sun's 1U x64 server line, and at most they support two drives.
This is fine for the root OS install, but obviously not sufficient for many
users.
Specifically, I am looking at the: http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x2200/
X2200M2.
It only has "Riser card assembly with two internal 64-bit, 8-lane, low-profile, half
length PCI-Express slots" for expansion.
What I'm looking for is a SAS/SATA card that would allow me to add an external
SATA enclosure (or some such device) to add storage. The supported list on the
HCL is pretty slim, and I see no PCI-E stuff. A card that supports SAS would be
*ideal*, but I can settle for normal SATA too.
So, anybody have any good suggestions for these two things:
#1 - SAS/SATA PCI-E card that would work with the Sun X2200M2.
Scouting around a bit, I see SIIG has a 3132 chip, for which they make a card,
eSATA II, available in PCIe and PCIe ExpressCard formfactors. I can't promise,
but chances seem good that it's supported by si3124 driver in Solaris:
si3124 "pci1095,3124"
si3124 "pci1095,3132"
Street price for the PCIe card is $30-35.
Also, the first hit for "PCIe eSATA" was a card based on the JMicron JMB 360,
which is supposed to support AHCI, and so should be supported by the brand-new
ahci driver (just back in snv_56). Street prices for the card most popular were
showing as $29.99 quantity 1.
I don't know whether either of these will work, but it looks promising. I also
don't know about eSATA vs. SCSI. Keep in mind that you'll only be able to
support two drives with the SIIG card, and one with the other one; port
multipliers may or may not be working yet.
#2 - Rack-mountable external enclosure for SAS/SATA drives, supporting hot swap
of drives.
Basically, I'm trying to get around using Sun's extremely expensive storage
solutions while waiting on them to release something reasonable now that ZFS
exists.
Cheers,
David
This message posted from opensolaris.org
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
