Hello Robert, Friday, May 16, 2008, 3:04:48 PM, you wrote:
RM> Hello James, >>> 2) Does anyone have experiance with the 2540? JCM>> Kinda. I worked on adding MPxIO support to the mpt driver so JCM>> we could support the SAS version of this unit - the ST2530. JCM>> What sort of experience are you after? I'ver never used one JCM>> of these boxes in production - only ever for benchmarking and JCM>> bugfixing :-) I think Robert Milkowski might have one or two JCM>> of them, however. RM> Yeah, I do have several of them (both 2530 and 2540). RM> 2530 (SAS) - cables tend to pop-out sometimes when you are around RM> servers... then MPxIO does not work properly if you just hot-unplug RM> and hot-replug the sas cable... there is still 2TB LUN size limit RM> IIRC... other than that generally it is a good value RM> 2540 (FC) - 2TB LUN size limit IIRC, other than that it is a good RM> value array + on both arrays you need to make sure that you tweak the array to ignore scsi cache flushes or tweak zfs to not to send them. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
