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Hoping the hive mind could help me do a sanity check on the disc performance numbers I'm seeing from my new build before I begin migrating data. Here are the build specs: System Components: AIC RSC-4EG2 Chassis w/ BKP-SAS3-12EG-R Backplanes Supermicro X9SRL-F-O Motherboard Intel Xeon 2.4GHz...

Super observant of you and I think you may be on the right track. I tried booting that ESXi 4.1 box with ESXi 5.1 and it happily finds the COMSTAR lun using the vmware iSCSI Software Adapter. Is anyone aware of issues between the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 and COMSTAR? The same HBAs seem...

I've spent the whole day fighting with COMSTAR and ESXi 5.1. I'm really hoping someone can help. Here's the what I've done: Created a zfs volume Created a COMSTAR lu from said volume Created a COMSTAR target Created a COMSTAR view for said lu (visible to everyone on all interfaces)...

This is fantastic information for someone just starting out with OpenIndiana (like me). Thanks so much!

In my previous post, am I correct in thinking I'd still want to utilize RAID10 and a hot-spare with an SSD based VM Pool or could I get comparable performance to my SAS + L2ARC + ZIL config with an SSD RAIDZ-1 and a hot-spare?

A very fair point. To the question of how much space we're talking about I guess I'd be most comfortable with somewhere in the neighborhood of 2TB minimum usable for the VM Pool. That would give me plenty of room to grow up to 30 VMs (if the need should arise) @ ~66GB/VM average. To achieve...

Those assumptions are correct. The media pool would not have many simultaneous users and the number of smaller files would be relatively few (photos, documents, etc). The media pool may, however, occasionally be asked to do large sequential writes while doing large sequential reads (remuxing...

Thinking along the line of separate pools I came up with the following: VM Pool: 6 Disk SAS Striped Triple Mirror, 1 Disk SSD L2ARC, 2 Disk SSD ZIL Mirror, 1 Disk SAS hot-spare Media Pool: 14 Disk SATA RAIDZ-3 Am I correct in thinking that if I later wanted more space for the VM Pool...

I should have mentioned that this is not an all-in-one setup, the VMs will be running on separate servers. (I'll update the original post to reflect this) I had thought about separating the pools for file share and VMs but was shying away because of the extra ZIL/L2ARC disk requirements. Not...

I'm in the process of building my new NAS and have 24 hot-swap bays to utilize for my ZFS pool(s) as well as two additional bays on the chassis rear for OS drives. The NAS will serve large file content (movies and music) as well as host around 15-20 VMs via iSCSI. A couple of the VMs will...

I've now purchased the following hardware: 1x - AIC RSC-4EG2 4U 24 Bay Chassis 2x - IBM 46M0861 xSeries ServeRAID M1015 SAS/Sata Controllers And I'm considering the following additional components: 1x - Supermicro X9SRL-F Motherboard 1x - Intel Xeon E5 2620 2GHz CPU 1x - Kingston 64GB (4 x...

Thanks so much for the info guys. My two M1015s will be coming soon so I should be able to take full advantage of the dual port bonding configuration. Assuming the bonded configuration I would end up with eight 3Gb/s lanes per backplane (or 2Gb/sec/drive) of available bandwidth correct?

Awesome, I just ordered a pair of M1015s so I'll try connecting both ports of each to a single backplane as you suggest. Thanks for the info! Thanks Dalfo002, just wanted to confirm. :)

Here are some photos I took as well if this will help anyone with a definitive connector identification or to help me confirm that the backplane is indeed a BKP-SAS3-12EG-R. Thanks.

Dalfo002, Thanks so much for the reply. I'm relatively sure the whitepaper is the correct one. I know the chassis is a RSC-4EG2 and according to the parts list there are only 5 available backplanes (only one of which is a 12-in-1). Additionally, the diagram in the white paper appears to be...

I recently purchased a AIC RSC-4EG2 chassis which came with what I believe are 2 BKP-SAS3-12EG-R backplanes. Each of these backplanes has 3 SAS connectors, two of which are labeled as "uplink" and one of which is labeled as "downlink". From this SAS expander white paper I found it seems...

Went ahead an picked up a case I found on ebay. It's an AIC RSC-4EG2 with 3x 120mm fans. Unfortunately, it seems to have come with the BKP-SAS3-12EG-R backplane which is the only one available on the RSC-4EG2 that doesn't appear to support 6G. Could someone please help explain the difference...

Hey All, I'm looking to replace my existing home NAS/SAN solution with an eye toward the following goals: Relatively quiet operation (will be located in server closet adjacent to home theater so noise is a concern, prefer replaceable 120mm chasis fans if possible) Large/expandable storage...

Berg0, That is a good point. I guess I'm not married to the idea of a whitebox, I guess I figured it would be the least expensive option. I do already have a rackmount case and power supply I could use for my build so the real cost would be MB, CPU(s), & RAM. Would I have to get one of the...

Any particular recommendations? From what I've found all LGA 775 boards are out because they only support 1 CPU (max 4 cores). For the Xeon side I believe that only leaves LGA 771 or LGA 1366. I haven't gotten a good handle on what's available on the Opteron side. I also haven't been able to...

Hey All, I'm preparing to build an ESXi 4.0 whitebox system and I'm looking for recommendations on a motherboard. I'd like to have the following, the cheaper the better: Support for up to 8 cores Support for x64 guest systems Ability to boot ESXi 4.0 from USB (preferably USB 2.0)...