It's a pity that Sun does not manufacture something like this. The x4500 Thumper, with 48 disks is way over the top for most companies, and too expensive. And the new X4150 only has 8 disks. This Intel box with 12 hot-swap drives and two internal boot drives looks like the sweet-spot to me. The only problem is that Intel are not listing Solaris as a supported operating system. The question is how are all those SAS/SATA disks interfaced to the motherboard. As far as I can see it's using some new chipset called 'Blackford'. Has Solaris got a driver for that chipset? I don't think so, but I'd love to be wrong on that. It looks like the chipset provide 4-ports on the motherboard, and then they use four lane SAS cables.
Has anyone tried the HP ProLiant DL320s with Solaris & ZFS? http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241475-3232017.html It has a similar 12+2 drive bay arrangement, and I believe HP do support Solaris and have drivers for their disk interface cards. Regards Nigel Smith This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
