On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:51:44AM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote: > I'm curious about a couple things that would be "unsupported." > > Specifically, whether they are "not supported" if they have specifically > been crippled in the software.
We have not crippled the software in any way, but we have designed an appliance with some specific uses. Doing things from the Solaris shell by hand my damage your system and void your support contract. > 1) SSD's > > I can imagine buying an intel SSD, slotting it into the 7110, and using > it as a ZFS L2ARC (? i mean the equivalent of "readzilla") That's not supported, it won't work easily, and if you get it working you'll be out of luck if you have a problem. > 2) expandability > > I can imagine buying a SAS card and a JBOD and hooking it up to > the 7110; it has plenty of PCI slots. Ditto. > finally, one question - I presume that I need to devote a pair of disks > to the OS, so I really only get 14 disks for data. Correct? That's right. We market the 7110 as either 2TB = 146GB x 14 or 4.2TB = 300GB x 14 raw capacity. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
