I second the M1015, cross flash for IT mode.
In terms of SAS/SATA, just buy a fan-out cable and you're pretty much good to go. SAS might be Serial Attached SCSI, but it doesn't come with all the difficulties of traditional SCSI including terminators and such. Make sure to buy the right cable...
Nexenta is based on the Illumos kernel, just like Open Indiana.
It is extremely simple to get Open Indiana or OmniOS up and running, then install Napp-It on-top for web management:
http://www.napp-it.org/
After that, configuring Comstar for fibreChannel target mode is easy...
Hey guys, been running various different versions of forked Solaris (Open Indiana, OmniOS, etc) with Napp-it for awhile now and had no issues, well for the most part.
Let me provide some background and then the problem. I'm not looking for hand-holding, but a point in the right direction would...
Hi guys, hoping you can help.
Bought a Norco 4224 little while back and had a major "fun" time getting it going. Almost 15 SAS drives seemed to refuse to work in the system, chalked it up to the drives as they were used from Ebay (should've known better that all 15 couldn't be bad).
This...