Aaron Moore wrote: > I am new to open solaris and am trying to setup a ZFS based storage > solution. > > I am looking at setting up a system with the following specs: > > Intel BOXDG33FBC Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz 2 or 4 GB ram > > For the drives I am looking at using a LSI SAS3081E-R > > I've been reading around and it sounds like LSI solutions work well in > terms of compatability with solaris. Could someone help me verify this? > > Or are there any alternate cards I should be looking at? > > I'm looking at having a max of 12 HDs so I'd use this card in conjunction > with another 2 or 4 port card. > > My other option is to get 3 PCI or PCIE based 4 port cards which I am > open to. I'm just trying to keep the cost low.
In general, LSI cards based on the 1064 or 1068 chips should work out of the box with the Sun-supplied mpt(7d) driver. I think your motherboard and cpu choice are fine, and I encourage you to stuff as much ram as possible onto the board ;) James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
