Hi. I''ve ordered an areca ARC-1680 sas-adapter and supermicro 3U storage cabinet which can hold 16 sata-disks. The disks are WD RAID Edition 2 GP - 1000GB (server-edition). This will be a jbod-storage. My plan is to create one zpool and add disks in chunks of 10 disks in raidz2 and allocate one hot-spare for each cabinet, Ie; two cabinets will have 3 x 10 disks + 2 hotspares = 32 disks. The storage will grow to approx. 21 TB netto to start with and may grow beyond that. The server that will hosts the storage is a HP DL380 G5 16 GB ram and two dual-core woodcrests and a p400-onboard controller. I can install solaris 10 (8/07) but will this zfs-version be stable enough? When installing solaris 10 I add the smart-array driver from HP during install (press 5 ''Apply driver updates'' and choose cd/dvd and the driver is loaded). I tried to install b79 but when I try the same procedure it tells me that no drivers were loaded and hence the installation cannot find any disks to install or upgrade. Is there is a simple solution for this or should I ask the opensolaris-discuss list instead? -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare
Claus Guttesen wrote:> Hi. > > I''ve ordered an areca ARC-1680 sas-adapter and supermicro 3U storage > cabinet which can hold 16 sata-disks. The disks are WD RAID Edition 2 > GP - 1000GB (server-edition). This will be a jbod-storage. My plan is > to create one zpool and add disks in chunks of 10 disks in raidz2 and > allocate one hot-spare for each cabinet, Ie; two cabinets will have 3 > x 10 disks + 2 hotspares = 32 disks. > > The storage will grow to approx. 21 TB netto to start with and may > grow beyond that. The server that will hosts the storage is a HP DL380 > G5 16 GB ram and two dual-core woodcrests and a p400-onboard > controller. > > I can install solaris 10 (8/07) but will this zfs-version be stable enough? > > When installing solaris 10 I add the smart-array driver from HP during > install (press 5 ''Apply driver updates'' and choose cd/dvd and the > driver is loaded). I tried to install b79 but when I try the same > procedure it tells me that no drivers were loaded and hence the > installation cannot find any disks to install or upgrade. Is there is > a simple solution for this or should I ask the opensolaris-discuss > list instead?ARC-1680 from Areca Technologies uses the "arcmsr" driver. You can download a version from their website. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
Claus, How is your setup working? Just curious! Thx. NV This message posted from opensolaris.org
> How is your setup working? Just curious! > > Thx. > NVWaiting for some parts. :-/ But as soon as I have some information I''ll post it. :-) -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare
Claus Guttesen wrote:> I can install solaris 10 (8/07) but will this zfs-version be stable enough? > > When installing solaris 10 I add the smart-array driver from HP during > install (press 5 ''Apply driver updates'' and choose cd/dvd and the > driver is loaded). I tried to install b79 but when I try the same > procedure it tells me that no drivers were loaded and hence the > installation cannot find any disks to install or upgrade. Is there is > a simple solution for this or should I ask the opensolaris-discuss > list instead? > >You should be able to Live Upgrade to the latest Solaris 10 or Express. Unless you have a spare drive or slice, you may have to reinstall leaving a slice spare for LU. Ian