[OmniOS-discuss] anyone doing DirectPath I/O?

[Joseph Boren]

Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone was using DirectPath, specifically for exclusive
use of a drive controller and attached drives to a specific VM.    I have a
use case that would seem to be a good fit for this, so I played around with
a couple of RAID controllers I had, and was able to get one (3ware 9650se)
configured for directpath, but none of the drives attached would show to
OmniOS, regardless of how I configured them in the raid bois (JBOD,
individual disks, etc).  I know that controller is poorly supported and I
was curious if anyone was using DirectPath  this way in production and what
kind of drive controller/HBA/whatever was working.  Also any "for the love
of god don't do it this way" scenarios?  I seem to be really adept at
finding and trying those out first....

Thanks a ton and best regards,

-jb-
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