[OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

[Fred Liu]

Is 6805H/6405H(http://www.adaptec.com//en-us/products/series/6h/) worthy of recommendation too?

Thanks.

Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Wesolowski [mailto:keith.wesolowski at joyent.com]
> Sent: 星期四, 五月 01, 2014 0:29
> To: Fred Liu
> Cc: developer at lists.illumos.org
> Subject: Re: [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA
> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 06:34:29AM -0700, Fred Liu via illumos-
> developer wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for the typo…
> >
> > From: Fred Liu
> > Sent: 星期三, 四月 30, 2014 21:31
> > To: 'developer at lists.illumos.org'
> > Subject: HBA recommended except LSI and ARECO
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Any ideas will be highly appreciated!
> 
> Well, since you've excluded two of the three HBA vendors, I'm not sure
> why you're asking for ideas.  The remaining player is PMC-Sierra, who
> recently bought Adaptec and are now using that as a consumer-facing
> brand for cards based on the ASICs they've made for years.
> 
> I have not yet evaluated them in my lab, but I suspect that e.g. the
> 7085H/7805H likely work with our pmcs(7D) driver.  If so, I would
> recommend giving this a close look (if not, we need to get in touch
> with them and fix that); we used PMC-Sierra ASICs on a Sun-made board
> when I was at Fishworks and I was reasonably pleased with the product.
> At the time anyway, PMC was much better aligned with the ZFS-centric
> storage architecture than LSI: less work being done in firmware, better
> non-RAID options, superior error handling and telemetry, etc.  I have
> not seen LSI change their stance on this; they clearly remain committed
> to selling people expensive HW RAID controllers with bloated firmware
> stacks.  Assuming this generation of PMC products is similar to the old,
> you'll likely find them a better fit than the other vendors.
> 
> See http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/series/7h/.
> 
> I would not recommend any of the consumer-grade (pre-PMC) or HW RAID
> based stuff from Adaptec.  That stuff was trash, and I'm not sure any
> of it works with illumos at all.