Hi. I've ordered an areca ARC-1680 sas-adapter and supermicro 3U storage cabinet which can hold 16 sata-disks. The disks are WD RAID Edition 2 GP - 1000GB (server-edition). This will be a jbod-storage. My plan is to create one zpool and add disks in chunks of 10 disks in raidz2 and allocate one hot-spare for each cabinet, Ie; two cabinets will have 3 x 10 disks + 2 hotspares = 32 disks.
The storage will grow to approx. 21 TB netto to start with and may grow beyond that. The server that will hosts the storage is a HP DL380 G5 16 GB ram and two dual-core woodcrests and a p400-onboard controller. I can install solaris 10 (8/07) but will this zfs-version be stable enough? When installing solaris 10 I add the smart-array driver from HP during install (press 5 'Apply driver updates' and choose cd/dvd and the driver is loaded). I tried to install b79 but when I try the same procedure it tells me that no drivers were loaded and hence the installation cannot find any disks to install or upgrade. Is there is a simple solution for this or should I ask the opensolaris-discuss list instead? -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
