On 23/06/2013 14:30, Christopher Chan wrote: > Have you tried this Saso?
I haven't tried that particular box, but given that physical construction is irrelevant when dealing with compatibility, I wouldn't worry about it. What matters is what chips are in there. Beware about depth of the machine, though (889mm), because it is about 15cm more than your average X4540. See http://storage.chinabyte.com/422/12589422.shtml for details of the physical arrangement. > Illumos runs on that board and with the > onboard SAS controller? Man, I want to look at the insides and see how > they managed to turn those bays into double disk bays. AFAIK LSI SAS 2308 *is* supported in Illumos just fine, so any reasonably recent Illumos-derived distro (oi_151a8, OmniOS r151006) should work out of the box. I have a pair of machines with Intel C602J chipset motherboards from Supermicro and I couldn't get PCI-e slots attached to CPU socket #2 to work - so beware if you plan to use more than 2 PCI-e cards (for me it luckily wasn't an issue). Also note that you don't have to buy the pre-built barebone machine. You can buy the chassis + motherboard separately. Have a good look at the chassis info and what motherboards are compatible, Supermicro publishes detailed parts lists on their website. In my case Supermicro didn't offer a barebone machine with the motherboard I wanted (with 10 GigE on-board), so I bought the chassis + motherboard separately (+ some accessories to fit it all together nicely). Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
