Edmund, Yes, we also recommend 9205 and we have migrate to 9205 from 9200 for a while and they are working good for our customers.
Rocky -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edmund White Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:13 AM To: Sašo Kiselkov Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] HP JBOD D2700 - ok? I'd recommend the LSI 9205 over the 9200 simply for the newer chipset and performance reasons, but the HP card you mention is compatible. -- Edmund White On 11/30/11 8:06 AM, "Sašo Kiselkov" <skiselkov...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 11/30/2011 02:40 PM, Edmund White wrote: >> Absolutely. >> >> I'm using a fully-populated D2700 with an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server >> running NexentaStor. >> >> On the HBA side, I used the LSI 9211-8i 6G controllers for the server's >> internal disks (boot, a handful of large disks, Pliant SSDs for L2Arc). >> There is also a DDRDrive for ZIL. To connect to the D2700 enclosure, I >> used 2 x LSI 9205 6G HBAs; one 4-lane SAS cable per storage controller >>on >> the D2700. >> >> These were setup with MPxIO (dual controllers, dual paths, dual-ported >> disks) and required a slight bit of tuning of >>/kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf, >> but the performance is great now. The enclosure is supported and I've >>been >> able to setup drive slot maps and control disk LED's, etc. >> > >Coincidentally, I'm also thinking about getting a few D2600 enclosures, >but I've been considering attaching them via a pair of HP SC08Ge 6G SAS >HBAs. Has anybody had any experience with these HBAs? According to a few >searches on the Internet, it should be a rebranded LSI9200-8e. > >Cheers, >-- >Saso >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
