On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Sašo Kiselkov 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.
I have tested this configuration with D2600 and D2700 enclosures and the SC08Ge HBA under ZFS and NexentaStor. Works fine. -- richard -- ZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com LISA '11, Boston, MA, December 4-9 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
