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

[Svavar Örn Eysteinsson]

Thanks Jason.
That is actually what I was looking at.
HP D2600 disk box, with Procurve DL380 G7 and buy somewhere else the LSI 
SAS 9205-8e HBA
I called our HP reseller and the asked about the D2600 box, it's about 
$5000 with tax (as the currency is now).

> I strongly advise not using the P410 in your box. The write performance is
> dismal with Solaris, at least w/o the write back cache. It is much better
> under linux in the same configuration. 

As the DL380 G7 has embedded SmartArray P410i and P411 will there be 
some issues running Solaris, or can I just disable
the controller do get regular disk access ?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Svavar

Jason Matthews wrote:
> Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
>
>
> The actual question about HP, and or some other vender was
>> regarding say, if a HD disk would fail, controller and
>> or motherboard, I have a pretty good connection(and support)
>> regarding replace'ing them after few hours. So hardware
>> support would be great, and hardware compatibility.
>> Software support is not what I'm actually looking for.
>
>
> If have to go HP, then use the DL380G7 instead of the DL360. You can put two
> main risers in that chassis which will support multiple PCI-E cards each --
> both half and full height. The DL380 can also hold 16 drives/8 mirrors.
>
> If you put an LSI card in that box, HP is not likely going to want to
> support you on some disk related issues. Failed drives shouldn't be a
> problem. You'll want the 9205-8E LSI card at any rate not 9208 which doesn't
> exist.
>
> Make sure you flash the LSI card immediately to avoid problems. P12 is the
> latest rev as of November. The flash procedure is a bit silly. Download the
> firmware in the windows/dos/whatever zip file and then get the installer
> from the solaris branded zip file. On some revs of firmware, the flash
> binary fails to discover any LSI cards. I found that the irc2sas binary some
> how gets the card in a proper state to be discovered by the flash updater.
> Go LSI!
>
> I strongly advise not using the P410 in your box. The write performance is
> dismal with Solaris, at least w/o the write back cache. It is much better
> under linux in the same configuration.
>
>
> j.
>
>
>
>
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