[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, May 26, 2011 05:54 AM, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> This gives me some pause as I'm in the process of replacing Nexenta boxes that
> also had flakey reliability.  Is anyone using 148 in an enterprise situation
> with Supermicro?

I have oi_147 running on a Supermicro board and case. I have not had 
issues except for not being able to turn on iommu support (dual socket 
Opteron board) and issues with the onboard LSI2008 controller and an 
addon LSI 9211-8i controller. Those boards would sometimes not see any 
disks or load grub. Not sure if it is a problem with the hbas or the 
Supermicro backplane but replugging the cables always sorts the problem 
out. SC847 case here.

On the OI side of things, I have had no issues with OI_147 on this set 
of hardware.

>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a few servers running openindiana 148, and it's been running rather well for some time. Lately, however, we've seen some hichups that may be related to the platform, rather than the hardware. The actual errors have been variable. Some issues were due to some supermicro backplanes that tended to fail, causing drives to report massive i/o errors. But then, the really bad ones are issues where zfs reports bad drives even though iostat report them as good. So far, we haven't lost a pool, it has been sorted out, but I still wonder what happens if I'm gone for a few weeks and something like that happens.
>>
>> The systems where we have had issues, are two 100TB boxes, with some 160TB "raw" storage each, so licensing this with nexentastor will be rather expensive. What would you suggest? Will a solaris express install give us good support when the shit hits the fan?
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