Hi B, thx for hitting on the expander issue that I need to finish your job -
On top of as Rich said, Sun sells many expander-based stuff, please also understand why you even need that -- the LSI SAS HBA that Sun resells does up to over 200 JBOD disks by itself. But the new HDS AMS2000 SAS implementation uses the expander technology for some some..., just that you have to buy the whole storage controller (a not so open storage server if you can't make the connection). So, expander or not to expander or how to expander is debate-able in my view. [and yea Orvar, they are all pretty safe for your baby silo data management approach...] ;-) best, z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Elling" <richard.ell...@sun.com> To: "Brandon High" <bh...@freaks.com> Cc: <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA;JBOD is not always JBOD > Brandon High wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Carson Gaspar <car...@taltos.org> wrote: >> >>> On 1/9/2009 8:21 AM, Will Murnane wrote: >>> >>> >>>> You might consider a case with a SAS expander in it; you can plug sata >>>> >>> Except Solaris still lacks support for port expanders, or did last I >>> checked. Has this changed? >>> >> >> A SAS expander is different than a SATA port multiplier (PMP). I'm >> not sure if the SAS expander is supported, but it might be >> > > Sun sells many products which use SAS expanders. > -- richard > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
