Thanks Jason.
That is actually what I was looking at.
HP D2600 disk box, with Procurve DL380 G7 and buy somewhere else the LSI
SAS 9205-8e HBA
I called our HP reseller and the asked about the D2600 box, it's about
$5000 with tax (as the currency is now).
I strongly advise not using the P410 in your box. The write performance is
dismal with Solaris, at least w/o the write back cache. It is much better
under linux in the same configuration.
As the DL380 G7 has embedded SmartArray P410i and P411 will there be
some issues running Solaris, or can I just disable
the controller do get regular disk access ?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Svavar
Jason Matthews wrote:
Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
The actual question about HP, and or some other vender was
regarding say, if a HD disk would fail, controller and
or motherboard, I have a pretty good connection(and support)
regarding replace'ing them after few hours. So hardware
support would be great, and hardware compatibility.
Software support is not what I'm actually looking for.
If have to go HP, then use the DL380G7 instead of the DL360. You can put two
main risers in that chassis which will support multiple PCI-E cards each --
both half and full height. The DL380 can also hold 16 drives/8 mirrors.
If you put an LSI card in that box, HP is not likely going to want to
support you on some disk related issues. Failed drives shouldn't be a
problem. You'll want the 9205-8E LSI card at any rate not 9208 which doesn't
exist.
Make sure you flash the LSI card immediately to avoid problems. P12 is the
latest rev as of November. The flash procedure is a bit silly. Download the
firmware in the windows/dos/whatever zip file and then get the installer
from the solaris branded zip file. On some revs of firmware, the flash
binary fails to discover any LSI cards. I found that the irc2sas binary some
how gets the card in a proper state to be discovered by the flash updater.
Go LSI!
I strongly advise not using the P410 in your box. The write performance is
dismal with Solaris, at least w/o the write back cache. It is much better
under linux in the same configuration.
j.
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