[OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

[Bob Friesenhahn]

I have a OpenIndiana system with 16-cores of Xeon E5 and Intel i350 
Ethernet and these seem to work great with recent OpenIndiana/Illumos. 
I was a bit nervous about i350 Ethernet since the driver was not added 
until 151a3 but it has worked perfectly.

Prices I have seen this year for Enterprise SAS and SATA drives did 
not show a large bump in price for SAS as compared with SATA (maybe 
only $20-30).  Other than the SAS controller, there is not much extra 
cost for SAS as compared with SATA if one sticks with a supplier like 
Supermicro.  Due to this, I went with SAS for my system, except that 
SATA is used for boot/system drives.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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