Gary Mills
2009-Apr-25 03:25 UTC
[zfs-discuss] What is the 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive?
Does anyone know about this device?
SESX3Y11Z 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive with Marlin Bracket
for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 Servers, RoHS-6
Compliant
This is from Sun''s catalog for the T5120 server. Would this work well
as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? Is there any way I could use this in
a T2000 server? The brackets appear to be different.
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-Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
Richard Elling
2009-Apr-25 04:08 UTC
[zfs-discuss] What is the 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive?
Gary Mills wrote:> Does anyone know about this device? > > SESX3Y11Z 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive with Marlin Bracket > for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 Servers, RoHS-6 > Compliant > > This is from Sun''s catalog for the T5120 server. Would this work well > as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? Is there any way I could use this in > a T2000 server? The brackets appear to be different. >The brackets are different. T2000 uses "nemo" bracket and T5120 uses "marlin." For the part-number details, SunSolve is your friend. http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SE_T5120/components http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SunFireT2000_R/components The main difference between the brackets is the airflow is better through the marlin. There is a "support" issue, but these are tend to be more marketing than engineering -- don''t look for logic, there may be none. -- richard
Gary Mills
2009-Apr-25 23:15 UTC
[zfs-discuss] What is the 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:08:52PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote:> Gary Mills wrote: > >Does anyone know about this device? > > > > SESX3Y11Z 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive with Marlin Bracket > > for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 Servers, RoHS-6 > > Compliant > > > >This is from Sun''s catalog for the T5120 server. Would this work well > >as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? Is there any way I could use this in > >a T2000 server? The brackets appear to be different. > > The brackets are different. T2000 uses "nemo" bracket and T5120 uses > "marlin." For the part-number details, SunSolve is your friend. > http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SE_T5120/components > http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SunFireT2000_R/componentsI see also that no SSD is listed for the T2000. Has anyone gotten one to work as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
Richard Elling
2009-Apr-26 03:13 UTC
[zfs-discuss] What is the 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive?
Gary Mills wrote:> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:08:52PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > >> Gary Mills wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know about this device? >>> >>> SESX3Y11Z 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive with Marlin Bracket >>> for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 Servers, RoHS-6 >>> Compliant >>> >>> This is from Sun''s catalog for the T5120 server. Would this work well >>> as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? Is there any way I could use this in >>> a T2000 server? The brackets appear to be different. >>> >> The brackets are different. T2000 uses "nemo" bracket and T5120 uses >> "marlin." For the part-number details, SunSolve is your friend. >> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SE_T5120/components >> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SunFireT2000_R/components >> > > I see also that no SSD is listed for the T2000. Has anyone gotten one > to work as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? > >That is because T2000 is effectively EOL. You can still purchase them, but no new engineering is being done because they are near EOL. Qualifying new disks costs $$ for engineering, so they will decide not to do so. Like I said earlier, don''t try to put much logic into such decisions, you will fail because you won''t know all of the variables -- some of which have nothing to do with what is possible. That said, they should work fine. There is nothing in the SSD design which would preclude them working as well in the T2000 as any other system. -- richard
Mike Watkins
2009-Apr-27 12:46 UTC
[zfs-discuss] What is the 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive?
Create the zpool with: zpool create <name> log <dev(s)> - for the ZIL zpool create <name> cache <dev(s)> - for the L2ARC On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Richard Elling <richard.elling at gmail.com>wrote:> Gary Mills wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:08:52PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> >>> Gary Mills wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Does anyone know about this device? >>>> >>>> SESX3Y11Z 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive with Marlin Bracket >>>> for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 Servers, RoHS-6 >>>> Compliant >>>> >>>> This is from Sun''s catalog for the T5120 server. Would this work well >>>> as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? Is there any way I could use this in >>>> a T2000 server? The brackets appear to be different. >>>> >>>> >>> The brackets are different. T2000 uses "nemo" bracket and T5120 uses >>> "marlin." For the part-number details, SunSolve is your friend. >>> >>> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SE_T5120/components >>> >>> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SunFireT2000_R/components >>> >>> >> >> I see also that no SSD is listed for the T2000. Has anyone gotten one >> to work as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? >> >> >> > > That is because T2000 is effectively EOL. You can still purchase them, > but no new engineering is being done because they are near EOL. Qualifying > new disks costs $$ for engineering, so they will decide not to do so. Like > I > said earlier, don''t try to put much logic into such decisions, you will > fail > because you won''t know all of the variables -- some of which have nothing > to do with what is possible. > > That said, they should work fine. There is nothing in the SSD design which > would preclude them working as well in the T2000 as any other system. > -- richard > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20090427/ad0e8498/attachment.html>