Hey all,
I am on my second generation build of my FreeNas box, and believe mys SAS2 backplane is starting to become a bottleneck. I currently have a Supermicro 4U SC846A-R1200B chasis (SC846A-R1200B) with a SC846A-R1200B connected to two HBAs, a LSI 3008 thats integrated into my X11SSH-CTF Motherboard for one 8 drive zpool, and the other 8 drive zpool connected to a LSI2008 IT flash PCI express controller card.
My question related to replaced the current 846 backplane with a SAS3 backplane (Im thinking a BPN-SAS3-846EL1). Does anyone see any issues with swapping the backplane? Since the SAS3 backplane only has a single connector, it will all route through the integrates LSI3008 card, so both pools will now be on a single HBA as well. Should all this just work automagically on a part and cable swap / reboot, or should I expect to do anything to make it all work with the new backplane / HBA configuration? Thanks!
I am on my second generation build of my FreeNas box, and believe mys SAS2 backplane is starting to become a bottleneck. I currently have a Supermicro 4U SC846A-R1200B chasis (SC846A-R1200B) with a SC846A-R1200B connected to two HBAs, a LSI 3008 thats integrated into my X11SSH-CTF Motherboard for one 8 drive zpool, and the other 8 drive zpool connected to a LSI2008 IT flash PCI express controller card.
My question related to replaced the current 846 backplane with a SAS3 backplane (Im thinking a BPN-SAS3-846EL1). Does anyone see any issues with swapping the backplane? Since the SAS3 backplane only has a single connector, it will all route through the integrates LSI3008 card, so both pools will now be on a single HBA as well. Should all this just work automagically on a part and cable swap / reboot, or should I expect to do anything to make it all work with the new backplane / HBA configuration? Thanks!