[OpenIndiana-discuss] Open Indiana b148 on HP Proliant N36L miniserver?

Karl Dag Gursli karl-d at gursli.com
Thu May 12 17:39:06 UTC 2011


Gary wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>
>   
>> Will OI 148 work OK on this little box?
>>     
>
> It should -- I've actually posted that in the past as a possible ideal
> candidate for ZFS since it has ECC memory. But I haven't heard from
> anyone that's tried it yet. At home I already have a  D-Link NAS that
> runs Linux on a Marvell Orion ARM SoC. Had I seen the N36L before
> buying it I would have chosen the HP system instead. The important
> thing to find out is whether its onboard RAID controller will present
> the disks individually to the OS or not. On the rackmount DL380 & 360
> series I've had to install Promise cards and remove the card that HP
> shipped. But they may use completely different chip sets for the N36L
> so it's worth contacting support before buying if you want ZFS to
> manage your disks individually.
>
> -Gary
>
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I found this link: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=509795
They have successfully installed Opensolaris and NexentaStor on it. So 
it should work with Openindiana.

Karl Dag



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