From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 04:21:22 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9925AAC for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 04:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x230.google.com (mail-ob0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9258A295A for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 04:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id wo20so502012obc.7 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:21:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=d9ZS/tZRybxSBkieP7L9Di85Y61peHbC4xuE615uUjI=; b=GsH+2CbjYnTYqS62G1X/hZVqnwiteauiuq08piJRlSGtaoFub+HAIgLORzAbDQs7kD HAghtZ0fRdwTVn7WiHVSY9Pxjpg+ilDp5qW0dXJndp0BsTyfg2QjMu3GjFDXkgOCrtpG UdDeHAwHXMIMdnrPzUDTChYoGmk5KynOsH5hZavFGoFKoiHm9/n93h61PJ/V9JKGXWZe 76O+sk3VNr3AZ1reYxyJ0pR2KEPpp8A2n272q2y6wS/OtdQXuM9lzhDppDZJJXWvIJvf 0zOUJYeYwzjjHn0I+R3iB9sDB74WzChwCov0xaTsIDuzyNHagKaB+htkMgEXf6zxN75A Ofww== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.57.164 with SMTP id j4mr63611030oeq.24.1401942081334; Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.167.164 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.167.164 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:21:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:21:21 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SuperMicro SAS Expander compatibility question From: Freddie Cash To: Daniel Duerr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: FreeBSD Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:21:23 -0000 On Jun 4, 2014 9:26 AM, "Daniel Duerr" wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm looking to build a new ZFS storage server on 9-STABLE. The zpool will be running multiple raid2z vdevs. To accommodate a larger number of disks, I'd like to use a SAS Expander. I'm leaning towards the combination of the LSI SAS 9211-4i HBA (via mps) and the Supermicro 846E16 expander chassis (via ses). Does anyone here have experience with this specific hardware combination? Is it supported? Is it stable? We use LSI 9211-8i, and LSI 9211-8e connected to either SC836E16, SC836E26, SC846E16, SC846E26, and the JBOD version of the last 2. All using SATA HDs, SATA SSDs, Super Micro H8DGi-F6 mobo, and AMD CPUs. With FreeBSD 9.2. ZFS. Raidz2. And dedupe on some systems. So far, things are extremely stable and working well. These are backups storage boxes, though, not NFS or anything like that. > Thanks! > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"