Hi zfs congnoscenti, a few quick question about my hardware choice (a bit late, since the box is up already): A 3U supermicro chassis with 16x SATA/SAS hotplug Supermicro X8DDAi (2x Xeon QC 1.26 GHz S1366, 24 GByte RAM, IPMI) 2x LSI SAS3081E-R 16x WD2002FYPS Right now I''m running Solaris 10 5/9 (Oracle doesn''t support OpenSolaris, unfortunately). I would like to run Oracle in a zone/container, and use the rest for random storage and network servage. My questions: * does the hardware choice make sense? Particularly, the LSI host adapters. should I change anything hardware-side? * what kind of zfs layout would you recommend if I want to run Oracle in a container? * should I put some SSD (e.g. Intel 80 GByte 2nd gen) into the system if I can, or doesn''t Solaris 10 5/9 zfs support it? * is there a reason speaking against containers and Oracle? * how many hot spares would you suggest? Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE