[OmniOS-discuss] Boot from mirrored USB?

[Chris Nehren]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54:50 +0000, Ben Summers wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm speccing out some new hardware. It seems challenging to get vendor supported configurations which give you lots of discs on a Solarish OS, rather than using horrid RAID cards.
> 
> The best config I've found so far seems to be a Fujitsu RX200 with 4 internal 15k SAS discs (the internal supported card can only do 8 drives if you use RAID), plus a Fujitsu branded LSI controller connected to an Intel 3.5" JBOD array for bulk storage and maybe an SSD for ZIL.
> 
> Because I'd like to use all the internal discs for a database as a pair of mirrors in a single JBOD, I was wondering if anyone boots from USB discs?

SmartOS is designed to run from USB drives. I don't know if their
configuration supports mirroring, though.

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Chris Nehren