[OmniOS-discuss] Configuration sanity checking

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Richard Elling <
richard.elling at richardelling.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter!
>
> > On Feb 18, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > We're looking at some new boxes, and I would appreciate any comments on
> the
> > components proposed. This would be in a 2U chassis with 24 2.5" disk
> slots at
> > the front, although we're leaving a lot of those free for future growth.
> >
> > Motherboard - Supermicro X10DRi family
> > CPUs - E5-2620 v3
> > HBA - LSI 9300-8i
> > Network - Intel i350 or 540, depending on precise motherboard variant
> > Disks (SSD) - Intel S3510 (boot), S3610 (application + data)
>
> The drives are SATA and there are quite a few SATA ports on the mobo, do
> you
> need the SAS HBA?
>

So that was an interesting question, and I had to go away and investigate
further.
So the way this works is that the system has a 24-slot disk backplane. The
disks plug
into the backplane; you have to connect the backplane as a unit to
something, which
is where the HBA comes in. It doesn't look like there's a way to wire an
individual drive
to an onboard SATA port.

(The boot drives are in a separate rear caddy and connect direct to the
motherboard.)

Aside from the drives, this is supposed to be a fairly standard
Nexenta-compatible system.
We're just running OmniOS rather than Nexenta on it.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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