On 05/07/2012 05:42 AM, Greg Mason wrote: > I am currently trying to get two of these things running Illumian. I don't > have any particular performance requirements, so I'm thinking of using some > sort of supported hypervisor, (either RHEL and KVM or VMware ESXi) to get > around the driver support issues, and passing the disks through to an > Illumian guest. > > The H310 does indeed support pass-through (the non-raid mode), but one thing > to keep in mind is that I was only able to configure a single boot disk. I > configured the rear two drives into a hardware raid 1 and set the virtual > disk as the boot disk so that I can still boot the system if an OS disk fails. > > Once Illumos is better supported on the R720 and the PERC H310, I plan to get > rid of the hypervisor silliness and run Illumos on bare metal.
How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's spec sheets that the card runs an LSISAS2008 chip, so chances are that standard LSI firmware will work on it. I can send you all the required bits to do the reflash, if you like. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
