[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL

Matt Wilby matthewwilby at btinternet.com
Fri Jan 21 20:39:38 UTC 2011


On 21/01/2011 17:54, Rocky Shek wrote:
> Matt,
>
> We have done lot of test on Intel Server & various JBOD storage in our lab.
> We can also contribute to this list   
>
> Rocky
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Wilby [mailto:matthewwilby at btinternet.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 4:18 AM
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL
>
> If there is interest in creating an HCL, I will get something setup on the
> wiki and maintain it.
>
> It will however rely on community contribution. As a project we don't have
> the resources yet to test every possible bit of kit out there.....
>
> For the time being please feel free to email me and I'll add it to the list.
> Something along the lines of.....
>
> Vendor
> Model
> Works?
> Notes/special instructions etc 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
> On 21 Jan 2011, at 11:53, Dave Koelmeyer <davekoelmeyer at me.com> wrote:
>
>>>> I know it's early days, but what's the possibility of getting an HCL
> (Hardware
>>>> Compatibility List) page setup on the OI website? This would give
> community
>>>> members a chance to provide information on what works and what does not,
> and
>>>> perhaps share experiences on how to fix/tune certain components specific
> to that
>>>> hardware.
>>>>
>>>> With Openindianna moving away from the original Opensolaris code base
> sooner or
>>>> later the original HCL will start to become out of date. While I don't
> expect OI
>>>> to maintain a list of 'certified hardware' (yet) if the distribution is
> going to
>>>> penetrate production environments such a site would prove useful, rather
> than
>>>> the suck it and see approach at the moment. Might also take some of the
> load off
>>>> the bug submission etc.
>>>>
>>>> For information, Opensolaris has been removed from the main Sun/Oracle
> HCLpage
>>>> (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) but is still accessiblehere
>>>> (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/).
>> Anybody wanting to take Matthew's suggestion and run with it? I don't know
> how to make this happen, perhaps a section on the Wiki or something, but
> given recent discussion over storage adaptors etc this would be a very
> useful resource.
>> -- 
>> Dave Koelmeyer
>> http://davekoelmeyer.wordpress.com/
>>
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Hi Rocky,

Sure no problem. Ping me a list of hardware and I'll add it for you.

Thanks,

Matt






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