> From: Khushil Dep [mailto:khushil....@gmail.com] > > I've deployed large SAN's on both SuperMicro 825/826/846 and Dell > R610/R710's and I've not found any issues so far. I always make a point of > installing Intel chipset NIC's on the DELL's and disabling the Broadcom ones > but other than that it's always been plain sailing - hardware-wise anyway.
"not found any issues," "except the broadcom one which causes the system to crash regularly in the default factory configuration." How did you learn about the broadcom issue for the first time? I had to learn the hard way, and with all the involvement of both Dell and Oracle support teams, nobody could tell me what I needed to change. We literally replaced every component of the server twice over a period of 1 year, and I spent mandays upgrading and downgrading firmwares randomly trying to find a stable configuration. I scoured the internet to find this little tidbit about replacing the broadcom NIC, and randomly guessed, and replaced my nic with an intel card to make the problem go away. The same system doesn't have a problem running RHEL/centos. What will be the new problem in the next line of servers? Why, during my internet scouring, did I find a lot of other reports, of people who needed to disable c-states (didn't work for me) and lots of false leads indicating firmware downgrade would fix my broadcom issue? See my point? Next time I buy a server, I do not have confidence to simply expect solaris on dell to work reliably. The same goes for solaris derivatives, and all non-sun hardware. There simply is not an adequate qualification and/or support process. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
