Marion Hakanson wrote:
In looking for inexpensive JBOD and/or RAID solutions to use with ZFS, I've
run across the recent "VTrak" SAS/SATA systems from Promise Technologies,
specifically their E-class and J-class series:
E310f FC-connected RAID:
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=175
E310s SAS-connected RAID:
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=176
J300s SAS-connected JBOD:
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=163
The prices seem very reasonable as compared to Sun, HP, EMC, etc. You can
buy bare drives (SAS or SATA) and plug them into the chassis. If you're
using dual RAID controllers with SATA drives, they sell a dual-port adapter
that goes in the canister with each disk drive.
Has anyone tried these with Solaris yet? The docs claim Solaris-ready,
but I'm particularly curious to know if the E310f supports Sun's MPXIO
(multipathing) drivers in the dual-controller configuration.
This looks similar to the recently announced Sun StorageTek 2500 Low Cost
Array product line.
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/disk_systems/workgroup/2500/
multi-path support is coming later (sorry, I don't know the details)
How about the SAS-connected chassis'? What SAS HBA's are people using
with Solaris-10?
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/storage_networking/hba/sas/specs.xml
-- richard
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