Thread: ZFS on an A1000
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Old 01-16-2008, 09:44 AM
Ian Chard
 
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Default Re: ZFS on an A1000

On 21/08/06 19:04, tfb wrote:
> Ian Chard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm toying with the idea of using ZFS on an A1000 that's attached to one
>> of my Solaris boxes. Now I understand that ZFS can do its own
>> redundancy, so I have a couple of options:
>>
>> - let the A1000 do the RAID thing, and present a single LUN to ZFS, or
>> - configure the A1000 to look like a JBOD array (one LUN per disk)

>
> Are you aware that A1000s are not supported in Solaris 10 (unless
> something has changed recently)?


A similar question, then: the machine in question is a V440 with a
hardware RAID controller (using raidctl). Would I be better off
mirroring the disks using that controller, or letting ZFS do it?

- Ian

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