Recent content by dbrittain

I think I will go with the Intel RES2SV240. Thanks danswartz.

Fair enough. I will build two identical systems. Is the LSI SAS 9201-16i + SAS expander the best option then?

True. It is chaotic. I guess I can setup ESXi to run Ubuntu. The problem is the software is linux only and performance intensive and will be accessed by multiple users (~10).I am no expert of virtualization with this type of system.

Hello again. This is a two part post. Sorry for the wall of text to come... After setting up a 72TB ZFS storage system I have recently filled all of the free space. I am looking to expand with another ZFS system of the same size I would like some recommendations for a HBA or raid card. After...

Unfortunately I have 2 raidz2 and 1 raidz pools already to capacity (~74TB), so it seems to be a big burden. This is the problem when you are given equipment and have no say on the build initially. Nonetheless, I have some LSI cards, so I might try swap controllers. Once I get another storage...

Fair enough, is it possible to switch cards without many issues? Thank you for your help.

I installed the update for nappit without a problem however like you said _Gea it did not solve my problem. The problem I believe stems from when using cfgadm on the drives to unconfigure them. I get the following error: Hardware specific failure: failed to get state for SCSI bus: No such...

I have tried a restart, but to no avail. I will update napp-it via CLI and I will report back.

Hello everyone, I have run into a issue using napp-it. I am running a very large storage server, the OS is Solaris 11. Recently one of my raidz2's became degraded after losing two 3tb hds (corrupted). I am using version 0.71 Feb 23 build of napp-it and I am unable to remove the drives from...