[OmniOS-discuss] hw recomendation for JBOD box

[Jason Cox]

I second Paul's recommendation. I use that JBOD in my environment as well
and it has been very solid compared to other vendor hardware I have used in
the past.  I actually got the everything from them, www.areasys.com for
server and JBOD.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Paul Jochum <paul.jochum at alcatel-lucent.com
> wrote:

>  Tobi:
>
>     I have had good luck with equipment from DataOnStorage.com.  Not only
> reasonably priced and reliable, but they also sell a piece of software
> (which does run on OmniOS) called OSM, which allows a command line
> interface to identify (i.e. blinking lights) for the enclosure and disks in
> the enclosure.  Very useful when replacing a failing disk.
>
>    Other recommendations:
>
>    - highly recommend using SAS over SATA disks
>    - having 2 SAS cables connecting the JBOD to the server
>    - use 6Gb/s SAS for everything (it has more reliability features than
>    3 Gb/2 SAS)
>    - use LSI JBOD cards (such as the LSI SAS 9207-8e)
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Paul
>  On 10/30/2013 12:56 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
>
> We are looking at buying a system consisting of a 1U server and 1
> or more 3U JBOD boxes to run and OmniOS ZFS server. Any HW
> recommendations for the JBOD box, Controller, Disks, what are you
> using ?
>
> cheers
> tobi
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