[OpenIndiana-discuss] hotswap strategy

Mark mark0x01 at gmail.com
Sat May 28 03:56:30 UTC 2011


On 28/05/2011 3:25 a.m., Pete Ashdown 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?
>
>
>
LSI don't have a HBA that has support.
It is only in the raid controllers ie Megaraid.

You probably can use a Megaraid card which I think just "passes through" 
any disk that is not part of a raid set.

Mark.




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