[OmniOS-discuss] Xeon SOC with 10 GB net card

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Fábio Rabelo wrote:

> Hi to all
> 
> Someone knows if the 10 GB network ports in this litle baby works with OmniOS ?
> 
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X10SDV-8C-TLN4F.cfm
> 
> Yes, I am dreaming with a very compact pure SSD storage ;- ))
> 
> With one 8 port SAS in the PCIe slot, plus 4 Sata 3 ports in the motherboard, with a DOM module to boot the system and the
> remainig Sata 3 to ZIL device ....

I have one of these on order, which will have 6 hot-swap AHCI/SATA 
SSDs and 2 M.2 AHCI SSDs (Samsung SM951).  One of the M.2 AHCI SSDs is 
supported by an a PCIe adaptor card.  I have instructed my computer 
builder to install OmniOS on it.  It is not clear if this will mostly 
just work (other than 10Gbit interfaces) or be an adventure.

Look for my previous posting on the illumos-discuss mailing list which 
was inappropriately entitled "Does Illumos support Pentum D?".  There 
were some useful responses based on pre-production samples.

The M.2 interface is really interesting since it is based on 4 (or 2 
on some boards) channels of PCIe 3.0 and is able to support AHCI or 
NVME cards without the transfer overhead of SATA.  Illumos is not 
quite there yet for NVME, although a driver has already been going 
through the review process.  In addition to the possible use of M.2 as 
a boot drive, these cards should work really well as ZFS L2 ARC since 
the read performance is extremely high.

Bob
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