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

[Andy]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, John D Groenveld wrote:

; In message <alpine.GSO.2.00.1503120936140.62 at areb.pvgehf-vg.arg>, Andy writes:
; >I spoke too soon - disk performance seems generally poor with high service
; >times :( Everything's working apart from the disks briefly going away
;
; Oye...maybe time to tell your Dell sales critter, you're going
; to send your business elsewhere unless he figures out how to BTO
; servers with non-RAID SAS HBAs similar to the ones that Dell US
; sells:
; <URL:http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=406-BBDP>
;
; Otherwise, good luck debugging MegaRAID drivers and firmware.
; What's the device ID for your RAID controller?

pci1028,1f49 (pciex1000,5d)
[LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader]],
instance #0 (driver name: mr_sas)

02:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
[Invader] (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell PERC H730 Mini
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 15
        I/O ports at 2000
        Memory at 92000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at 91f00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Expansion ROM at fff00000 [disabled]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [a8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
        Capabilities: [c0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=97 Masked-

; Which version mr_sas(7D) are you using?

 80 fffffffff7db7000  1d070 172   1  mr_sas (6.503.00.00ILLUMOS)

; Which version of the firmware?

# megacli -Version -Ctrl -aALL

              CTRL VERSION:
              ================

Product Name : PERC H730 Mini
Fw Package Build : 25.2.1.0037
FW Version : 4.240.00-3615

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