[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Jonathan Adams]

We use DELL, and Sun^H^H^HOracle kit ... I love the Sun kit for it's
ILOM (able to access the bios remotely, via console and browser) and
it's impressive use of space ... most HP kit is 4U for the same
horsepower/storage capacity of Sun 2U's ...

Fujitsu make good computers too that run well with Solaris 10, so
should work with Illumos, and they are definitely comparable to the
Sun kit (they used to be partners) ... our most recent server is a
Fujitsu and was about 1/4 of the Sun price for almost the same kit (no
ILOM)

If you do go DELL remember to look at the website (if your eyes don't
hurt) and get a quote, then call them up, they work on commission and
are aggressive with the prices.

Jon

On 4 January 2012 10:57, Jan Kesten <jan at dafuer.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from my personal experience I would recommend you Dell hardware. I have
> some old aged PE2900 running with 10 discs, and some newer R515 which
> have an option to fit 12 x 3.5'' drives as hot-plug and 2 x 2,5'' drives
> as internal discs. I use the internal discs for the operating system and
> the 12 drives as storage with zfs (but with an internal raid controller
> which come from LSI at dell and work out of the box now - there were
> some issues earylier).
>
> With those together with 12 x 3TB drives you can have up to 36 TB raw
> capacity in 2RU with no os on the data drives - which can come quite
> handy if you need to exchange them to another machine. Only point is to
> have a look at the controllers, the cheaper ones do not allow to have
> many volumes (if I remember right, the H700 do). Only flaw was that
> drives from dell are really expensive - and only come with a one year
> warranty - so I took the cheapest ones (your customer contact can affix
> the price - so phone her/him) and replaced them with "normal" drives
> loosing my warranty for the drives from dell (haha).
>
> Just as a hint :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
>
>
>> * AFP
>> * CIFS
>> * NFS
>> * iSCSI
>> * and of course ZFS underneath
>>
>> So what I'm looking at is a large capacity server.
>> We need 12-20TB at the start.
>>
>> Any other vendors good ?  any servers that comes out of the box and runs
>> Openindiana 151 with no problems (drivers / hardware ) e.t.c. acting
>> as a capacity server.
>> And support would be a good option to.
>>
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks allot.
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Svavar - Reykjavik - Iceland
>>
>>
>>
>>
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