[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS & Softlayer

[Paul Bucher]

Gea,

Thanks for the FYI, I know all too well I should have LSI SAS HBAs but I’m trying to stay within the limits of what Softlayer has on the self. My current boxes at Softlayer I bought and shipped them the correct controllers.

Anyways I’m going to try out the JBOD mode of the 9361 to start with. I’ve noticed Oracle uses 9361 with some of their storage units so there might be hope. Currently I’m waiting on Softlayer’s build team to get approval to rip out the SAS expander based backplane and put in a standard SAS one so I can have a dual controller setup. If the 9361 fails I’ll see about the motherboard SATA ports in AHCI mode, hopefully that’s not too strange of a cabling request for them.

Any comments if I end with the SATA ports how well Intel S3700’s work on them? The drives they use are the good news in the setup.

-Paul

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:34:56 +0200 Guenther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de> wrote:
>The LSI megaRAID 9361 is a hardware raid controller - the wrong type for 
>ZFS.
>You want a HBA controller best with a raidless IT firmware with an LSI 
>2008 or 3008 chipset
>like the LSI 9207 or 9003 or Sata in AHCI mode.
>
>Your options:
>- replace the 9361 with an HBA
>
>or
>- use it as a bootdevice for ESXi and the local datastore
>- pass-through Sata in AHCI mode (enable hotplug for Sata)
>
>or
>- add an HBA
>
>Gea
>
>
>Am 15.06.2016 um 19:44 schrieb Paul Bucher:
>> I?m working on bringing up some new mission critical servers at hosting provider Softlayer and wondering if anyone out there also hosts at Softlayer using OmniOS and what they?ve used for disk HBA?s at Softlayer with OmniOS(just to make it more complicated I use napp-it all in one virtual machine setups). My understanding is the current Xeon v3 servers Softlayer is using LSI megaRAID 9361 cards in them and I?ve been unable to find much about running ZFS on the newer megaraid cards and I really don?t want to do some RAID 0 type of setup that I?ve used in the past. Softlayer is using Supermicro X10DRU-i+ MBs that have a bunch of SATA ports on them hung off the C612 chipset, I?m temped to tell them to use those ports, but I?d like to hear someone else?s experience with these since I now OmniOS doesn?t always play well with more modern kit.
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>> So far I?ve had great success with all in one setups in the past on Softlayers older generation of servers, but I?ve had to ship to Softlayer and convenience them to install the standard LSI HBA SAS controllers for me which has the downside that if a box goes down they can?t just spin me up a newer server in an hour or so since it requires me to buy and ship them a new disk controller.
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>> -Paul
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