Hi,
a couple of years ago we built our own filers (some with Solaris, some with OpenSolaris and I think we have one with SmartOS now, too...)
This used hardware that turned out to be non-suitable for the task, mostly.
As an example, we have a huge problem of Solaris not disconnecting a drive that it can't read from or write to. The whole pool hangs, basically, until you reboot and whatever is responsible finally gives up and the drive is faulted...
I'd like to rebuild these years-old systems completely, using the best hardware available for the task.
However, building it from scratch is out of the question for us. We're primarily a HP-shop, but HP hardware is obviously useless for the task.
I looked around: the only thing that I could maybe persuade the people in charge of writing the cheques into buying are those "certified for nexenta" systems.
I'm thinking of either the offerings here:
http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/products/storage-systems/nexenta-storage.html
or here:
http://www.transtec.ch/en/products/storage/provigo-nexentastor-nas/
I'm really looking at the external enclosures rather than the servers themselves as I can fit an LSI-card into one of our HP-servers and be good with it...
What would be most important to us (and it does not work with the current controller/firmware/OS/enclosure combination) is that drive LEDs "work" in the sense that when a drive is faulty some sort of optical feedback (a red or yellow LED comes to mind) lights up.
I read in the feature-comparison chart that FreeNAS, as opposed to TrueNAS, does not support "enclosure management" - is that what I want?
Also, is anyone using a LSI-9207 controller in production (IT firmware), with some sort of external enclosure?
As far as I have understood, the firmware-levels of FreeNAS and the controller have to match.
Can a current-generation 9207 be back-flashed to an earlier version (which version would that be for FreeNAS 9.2, anyway?)? What issues can arise?
Sorry for the long posting...
Thanks in advance
a couple of years ago we built our own filers (some with Solaris, some with OpenSolaris and I think we have one with SmartOS now, too...)
This used hardware that turned out to be non-suitable for the task, mostly.
As an example, we have a huge problem of Solaris not disconnecting a drive that it can't read from or write to. The whole pool hangs, basically, until you reboot and whatever is responsible finally gives up and the drive is faulted...
I'd like to rebuild these years-old systems completely, using the best hardware available for the task.
However, building it from scratch is out of the question for us. We're primarily a HP-shop, but HP hardware is obviously useless for the task.
I looked around: the only thing that I could maybe persuade the people in charge of writing the cheques into buying are those "certified for nexenta" systems.
I'm thinking of either the offerings here:
http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/products/storage-systems/nexenta-storage.html
or here:
http://www.transtec.ch/en/products/storage/provigo-nexentastor-nas/
I'm really looking at the external enclosures rather than the servers themselves as I can fit an LSI-card into one of our HP-servers and be good with it...
What would be most important to us (and it does not work with the current controller/firmware/OS/enclosure combination) is that drive LEDs "work" in the sense that when a drive is faulty some sort of optical feedback (a red or yellow LED comes to mind) lights up.
I read in the feature-comparison chart that FreeNAS, as opposed to TrueNAS, does not support "enclosure management" - is that what I want?
Also, is anyone using a LSI-9207 controller in production (IT firmware), with some sort of external enclosure?
As far as I have understood, the firmware-levels of FreeNAS and the controller have to match.
Can a current-generation 9207 be back-flashed to an earlier version (which version would that be for FreeNAS 9.2, anyway?)? What issues can arise?
Sorry for the long posting...
Thanks in advance