[OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

[Peter Tribble]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken <
stefan.mueller-wilken at acando.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I know, this is only in parts an OpenIndiana related questions but maybe
> someone might share their experience / opinions...
>
> I have a customer running OI157_a8 on a Dell DL380-G7.


You mean HP, not Dell,  I presume.


> Works like a charm and everyone's happy. There's only one downside to the
> configuration and that's the SmarArray P410i RAID controller. Crappy to use
> with ZFS as it can't be run in JBOD mode. We had to configure it with 8
> RAID0 logical volumes which makes disk replacement a nightmare. Anyway,
> it's not a certified Oracle configuration so you sometimes have to make
> compromises...
>
> Now a few weeks ago we received an Oracle T3-1 SPARC server in similar
> configuration: 8 port SAS backplane, MegaRaid 9261-8i, fully equipped with
> 8 disks.
>

This is where I get a little confused. Why an extra HBA at all - what's
wrong with using the SAS ports on the system board?

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