[OmniOS-discuss] Dell vs. Supermicro and any recommendations..

[Linda Kateley]

Just some anecdotal info... sun had a very nice partnership with dell.. 
back in the day, if you searched for dell in the hardware compat list 
you would show thousand of entries.. Dell now has a guy who sits on 
nexenta's board, this fact might have some impact in what they recommend.

On the other hand, most if not all of the companies selling openzfs 
appliances are running supermicro or similar gear...Except for 
compellent which definitely runs dell :)

I agree with dan though, the hba is the most important, as is nics.

All this being said, I would personally prefer that dell r730 if i had a 
choice...

lk

On 2/18/15 9:34 AM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>> On Feb 18, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Andy <omnios at citrus-it.net> wrote:
>>
>> I've read some useful posts on this mailing list about the Dell R730xd -
>> specifically that if we ask Dell to configure it for Nexenta then it will
>> come with an LSI HBA and Intel NICs but I haven't seen any further posts
>> saying whether anyone has had any success getting one of these up and
>> running. I got the impression from the posts that it wasn't a great idea
>> and Supermicro is a better option.
> The key is to get an HBA illumos likes.  The *default* Dell HBAs aren't all that great, and stick you with HW-RAID.
>
> I've not heard success stories with "Nexenta Configured" + OmniOS, but that's because every Nexenta configuration was used to... well... run NexentaStor.  :)
>
> I know lots of illumos shops run SuperMicro with success.
>
> Dan
>
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