[OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

[LaoTsao]

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Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D

On May 27, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Pete Ashdown <pashdown at xmission.com> wrote:

> On 05/27/2011 02:10 AM, Mark wrote:
>> On 26/05/2011 9:13 a.m., Pete Ashdown wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble figuring out how to hotswap dead drives on a potential
>>> fileserver I am building.  I'm using an LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i&
>>> 9211-4i to connect 12 SATA drives on a Supermicro backplane that supports
>>> SES-2.  I am finding conflicting information as to whether OpenIndiana can
>>> light the bay LED of the failed drive on command.  If it can, how do I
>>> do it?
>>> If it can't, how do I identify which bay to swap the drive out of? 
>>> Right now
>>> I've got a mapping of drive serial #'s to bays, but that isn't ideal for a
>>> group of admins to execute upon.
>>> 
>>> Also, although the backplane supports SES-2, I'm not seeing
>>> /dev/es/ses0.  I
>>> installed system/io/tests, but I don't have sestopo in that package.
>>> 
>> 
>> The LSI SAS2 hba controllers don't seem to have ses2 support at present.
>> As far as I could tell, the ses functionality isn't present in the
>> firmware or drivers of the sas2 products.
>> 
>> see http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle15874.aspx
>> 
> 
> Any recommendations for a 2U SAS/SATA controller that does have ses2?
> 
> 
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