[OmniOS-discuss] OT: Similar hardware like MIcroserver Gen8

[C. L. Martinez]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/13, 3:22 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Thanks jimklimov, but my idea is not to use a microserver box due to
>>>> problems with SATA disks in AHCI mode under Gen8 series ... And Gen7
>>>> is too slowly machines ...
>>>
>>> Gen7 too slow for you? Didn't you say you're doing a home NAS? Don't
>>> underestimate the venerable MicroServer, it's plenty fast enough to
>>> saturate its Gigabit NIC, even while transparently compressing:
>>> https://www.illumos.org/attachments/822/lz4_compression_bench.ods
>>> (This is a set of ZFS LZ4 compression benchmarks I ran on my old Gen6
>>> MicroServer box, so a Gen7 is even faster than this.)
>>>
>>> Unless you're doing some serious compute or web serving I wouldn't worry
>>> about it. It's only 25W TDP, so you won't break the bank running the
>>> thing 24x7 at home, and it's multi-core and has HVM and ECC memory support.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> Saso
>>
>> Thanks Saso ... I have discarded Microserver N56L due to the reports
>> provided by people in their blogs about poor performance with AMD cpu
>> using it with ZFS (most of them with FreeNAS).
>
> That's strange. Can you point me to these reviews? Sure it's not fast
> enough to do a full Illumos nightly build on the spot, but it's plenty
> fast enough for serving files and even standard web server usage (been
> toying with the idea of replacing some old power-hungry clunkers with it).
>
>> But, if I buy a Microserver N56L, do I need to buy some additonal
>> storage adapter or it is ok with the default??
>
> Never had any trouble with the on-board AHCI one, though you may want to
> reflash the BIOS if you want to use the 5th SATA port in AHCI mode. If
> you plan on using SAS drives, you can just get an OEM-branded LSI card
> (they're much cheaper than buying LSI-original ones, despite having the
> same components:
> http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=bsd&sku=405-11540
> ) and just replug the SFF-8087 multi-link drive-bay connector from the
> motherboard into your HBA. Alternatively and if you're going for some
> really crazy deployments, I've used an external micro-JBOD
> (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Icy-Box-IB-545SSK-5-Bay-Channel/dp/B006BQYSFA)
> with two MicroServers talking to it over external LSI HBAs
> (http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=bsd&cs=ukbsdt1&sku=405-11482&ref=2531xC)
>
>> And another point, I need to use this NAS with OmniOS to serve iscsi
>> disks for one KVM host (CentOS).
>

I will add Microserver to my basket, but any more hardware
recommendations for OmniOS??