Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:29:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com> To: Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> Cc: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205311127420.48219@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <CACxnZKOJHeQH3=T4X3Jd-F3hrgOrirrgypG5HbdfhtFhkcaFzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACxnZKM__Lt9LMabyUC_HOCg2zsMT=3bpqwVrGj16py1A=qffg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPj0R5LwBkQbRvV_1MWbkNwEHOL=zCqXQt1o0pKbyipJmBUbig@mail.gmail.com> <CACxnZKOJHeQH3=T4X3Jd-F3hrgOrirrgypG5HbdfhtFhkcaFzA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 31 May 2012, Oscar Hodgson wrote: > That helps. Thank you. > > This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. > We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great > opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so > much, and the Oracle single-tier support model simply isn't affordable > for this "business" (there's no ROI at the departmental level <g>). > Solaris is not a viable option. > > FreeBSD looks like the next best available option at the moment, > particularly considering the use of the storage heads as compute > machines. OpenIndiana shows promise. Nexenta has a great product, > but the user community expects more flexibility in software options. > > Is there anything like a list of "supported" (known good) SAS HBA's? > Most of my HBAs are LSI controllers flashed T. I'm fond of the 9211.
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