>From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com] >Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 8:34 PM > >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Nordli >> >> Anyone have any experience with a R510 with the PERC H200/H700 >> controller with ZFS? >> >> My perception is that Dell doesn't play well with OpenSolaris. > >I have an R710... Not quite the same, but similar. > >When you say "doesn't play nice with opensolaris," you're hitting a grain of truth >but blowing it out of proportion. It's true that some stuff might not brainlessly >work the way you'd like. And it's true that you'll be lacking some functionality >that you'd probably like. But it's easy to quantify and describe, and easy to >describe the options of dealing with it, too: > >#1 Optical drive, by default, in AHCI mode. For some reason, apparently using a >chipset that osol can't handle. So put the optical drive into ATA or Legacy mode >before booting. Or use an external optical drive for installation. > >#2 On my R710, the perc driver wasn't included in the sol10 DVD by default, so I >had to download a special one from support.dell.com, and hit "5 - insert driver >disk" or whatever, during sol10 installation. This was not an issue for osol >installation. > >#3 OMSA provides the web-based gui to manage your raid card. Not available in >sol10/osol. Instead, find the appropriate MegaCLI for your device ... >which is really tough to do. This is needed if you want the ability to replace a >failed drive without rebooting. > >Once you overcome these things, it works great.
Thanks Edward. What did you end up using for the L2ARC? The SSDs shown in the online configurator are SLC based. Did you use the Broadcom or the optional Intel NIC? Geoff _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
