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

[Paul B. Henson]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:24:51PM +1300, Ian Collins wrote:

> I was looking at the box upside down, it's a 9211-8i....

Ah, ;), that's more easily found, about $230-$250 it seems, cool.

> > the 313 has a supercapacitor to flush the write cache on unexpected
> > power failure.
> 
> They don't unfortunately.

Bummer :(, it would be nice to get one that does. I think the 320 series
does, the 40G is only $90, but I think it has relatively crappy write
performance and high write latency, so wouldn't be a very good zil. The
313 looks like it has pretty good performance, and not too pricy at $135
for 24G, which is plenty big for a zil. The box is going to have dual
power supplies on UPS's, and I plan to set it up for auto shutdown on
power loss, so it's not *too* likely the slog is going to unexpectedly
lose power while processing writes. I guess when you're on a budget you
can't have everything <sigh>, I might need to settle for a non-powerfail
protected ssd for zil...

Thanks...