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

[Andy]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, Dan McDonald wrote:

;
; > On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Andy <omnios at citrus-it.net> wrote:
; >
; > If we go ahead, I'll let you all know how it goes!
;
; Please do that.  If you can zap a Dell Standard HBA out of HW-RAID and into a raw-disk controller, that'd be a HUGE WIN for illumos distros everywhere.

Initial results look good to me. This is a Dell R730 with a PERC H730
RAID card in it and just a pair of 300GB SAS disks for now. The card
is configured in non-RAID/HBA mode through the standard BIOS menus.

# prtconf -d
...
        pci8086,2f02 (pciex8086,2f02) [Intel Corporation Haswell-E PCI Express Root Port 1], instance #0
            pci1028,1f49 (pciex1000,5d) [LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader]], instance #0
                sd, instance #0
                sd, instance #1

# iostat -En
c0t0d1           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST300MP0005      Revision: VS08 Serial No: S7xxx
Size: 300.00GB <300000000000 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t1d1           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST300MP0005      Revision: VS08 Serial No: S7xxx
Size: 300.00GB <300000000000 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

I do get this during boot:

SunOS Release 5.11 Version omnios-10b9c79 64-bit
Copyright (c) 1983, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
NOTICE: map sync received, switched map_id to 1

NOTICE: LDMAP sync completed.
WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci8086,2f02 at 1/pci1028,1f49 at 0/sd at 0,1 (sd0):
        Command failed to complete...Device is gone

WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci8086,2f02 at 1/pci1028,1f49 at 0/sd at 1,1 (sd1):
        Command failed to complete...Device is gone

but everything seems ok afterwards. Will continue with testing tomorrow.

Andy

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