On 26 September, 2007 - Nigel Smith sent me these 1,2K bytes: > 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.
Tried booting u3 (I think, could have been a sxcr ~50-60) on one of those.. Required drivers for the HBA was additional stuff, but the USB controller was not working under Solaris, so I couldn't stick it onto an USB cd and adding it to the miniroot required another x86 Solaris machine to loopback mount the UFS file (only have sparc, not compatible). Gave up due to time constraints (borrowed machine for this test). So, "not straight out of the bot" but "maybe". /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
