[OmniOS-discuss] New SAN deployment HBA recommendations

[Nathan Huff]

Just as a data point we have a couple hosts running the LSI 9300-8e HBA to
JBODs on 151014 with no issues so far.


I was specifically wondering what is supported in the latest OmniOS
> release, but I suppose youre suggesting that I could backport an illumos
> driver from the latest build into ominos?
>
> OmniOS is the distro I use for SAN deployments. I use SmartOS for
> hypervisors.
>
>
> On 1/4/17, 2:18 PM, "Dan McDonald" <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
>
>
>     > On Jan 4, 2017, at 3:02 PM, John Barfield <john.barfield at bissinc.com>
> wrote:
>     >
>     > Greetings,
>     >
>     > I?m designing a new ZFS SAN and I?m wondering if anyone knows the
> latest greatest supported HBA that I should use for external JBOD?s.
>     >
>     > We have tons of SAN?s in production using LSI HBAs today but I?m
> wondering if there is anything new out there that I?m missing or not aware
> of yet.
>
>     Are you using LSI 9300 series (driven by the 3008 chipset) yet?
> That's the latest from the world of LSI.  Those are fairly recent (last 3-4
> years), and many still use the 2008 chipset or 2208 chipset.
>
>     There are parts currently just-in-SmartOS that may be getting
> upstreamed soon as well.
>
>     You may be better off asking this question on the illumos developers'
> list, to see what the latest/greatest in supported HBA HW is.
>
>     Dan
>
>
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Nathan Huff
System Administrator
Academic Health Center Information Systems
University of Minnesota
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