[OpenIndiana-discuss] Brainstorming for OpenIndiana server

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

I'm thinking about setting up a RAID-Z training server, with Linux as
a base. Yes, I know it's weird, but hear me out.

I have an AMD Opteron server that I'm repurposing from my old
workstation. I may be putting a hot-swap cage in here, and using the
onboard nforce (ahci) controller with a Linux host, running
OpenIndiana in a VirtualBox instance. Could it be possible to pass the
raw devices to the VM via a SATA controller, and then run the drives
in a RAID-Z configuration? Unless the root pool can be set up on
install as RAID-Z, I can use a virtual disk

Host will have an AMD Opteron 1352 with 4GB DDR2 RAM.

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- Alex Smith (K4RNT)
- Sterling, Virginia USA