On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:07:33PM -0800, Craig Morgan wrote: > Ray, > > If you are intending to go Nexenta then speak to your local Nexenta SE, > we've got HSL qualified solutions which cover our h/w support and we've > explicitly qualed some MD1200 configs with Dell for certain deployments > to guarantee support via both Dell h/w support and ourselves. > > If you don't know who that would be drop me a line and I'll find someone > local to you … > > We tend to go with the LSI cards, but even there there are some issues > with regard to Dell supply or over the counter. > > HTH > > Craig
Hi Craig; Yep, we are doing this. Just trying to sanity check the suggested config against what folks are doing "in the wild" as our Dell partner doesn't seem to think it should/can be done without the MD3200. They may have alterior motives of course. :) Thanks, Ray > > On 6 Jan 2012, at 01:28, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > We are looking at building a storage platform based on Dell HW + ZFS > > (likely Nexenta). > > > > Going Dell because they can provide solid HW support globally. > > > > Are any of you using the MD1200 JBOD with head units *without* an > > MD3200 in front? We are being told that the MD1200's won't "daisy > > chain" unless the MD3200 is involved. > > > > We would be looking to use some sort of LSI-based SAS controller on the > > Dell front-end servers. > > > > Looking to confirm from folks who have this deployed in the wild. > > Perhaps you'd be willing to describe your setup as well and anything we > > might need to take into consideration (thinking best option for getting > > ZIL/L2ARC devices into Dell R510 head units for example in a supported > > manner). > > > > Thanks, > > Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss