> You can't actually use those adapters in the > x2100/x2200 or even the > x4100/x4200. The slots are "MD2" low profile slots > and the 4 port adapters > require a full height slot. Even the x4600 only has > MD2 slots. So you can > only use 2 port adapters. I think there are esata > cards that use the > infiniband (SAS style) connector, which will fit in > an MD2 slot and still > access 4 drives, but I'm not aware of any that > Solaris supports.
Fair enough. :) > Unfortunately, Solaris does not support SATA port > multipliers (yet) so > I think you're pretty limited in how many esata > drives you can connect. Gotcha. > External SAS is pretty much a non-starter on Solaris > (today) so I think > you're left with iscsi or FC if you need more than > just a few drives and > you want to use Sun servers instead of building your > own. iSCSI is interesting to me, are there any JBOD iSCSI external arrays that would allow me to use SAS/SATA drives? I'd actually prefer this to eSATA, as network cable is even more easily dealt with. Toss in one of the dual/quad gigabit cards and run iSCSI to a JBOD filled with SATA/SAS drives == winning solution for me. 4gbit via network avoiding all of the expense of FC is nothing to sniffle at. Would this still be workable with ZFS? Ideally, I'd like 8-10 drives, running RaidZ2. Know of any products out there I should be looking at, in terms of the hardware enclosure/iSCSI interface for the drives? David This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
