# [OmniOS-discuss] New SAN deployment HBA recommendations

Nathan Huff nrhuff at umn.edu
Wed Jan 4 21:52:31 UTC 2017

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    Just as a data point we have a couple hosts running the LSI 9300-8e HBA to
    JBODs on 151014 with no issues so far.

    I was specifically wondering what is supported in the latest OmniOS
    > release, but I suppose youre suggesting that I could backport an illumos
    > driver from the latest build into ominos?
    >
    > OmniOS is the distro I use for SAN deployments. I use SmartOS for
    > hypervisors.
    >
    >
    > On 1/4/17, 2:18 PM, "Dan McDonald" <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >     > On Jan 4, 2017, at 3:02 PM, John Barfield <john.barfield at bissinc.com>
    > wrote:
    >     >
    >     > Greetings,
    >     >
    >     > I?m designing a new ZFS SAN and I?m wondering if anyone knows the
    > latest greatest supported HBA that I should use for external JBOD?s.
    >     >
    >     > We have tons of SAN?s in production using LSI HBAs today but I?m
    > wondering if there is anything new out there that I?m missing or not aware
    > of yet.
    >
    >     Are you using LSI 9300 series (driven by the 3008 chipset) yet?
    > That's the latest from the world of LSI.  Those are fairly recent (last 3-4
    > years), and many still use the 2008 chipset or 2208 chipset.
    >
    >     There are parts currently just-in-SmartOS that may be getting
    > upstreamed soon as well.
    >
    >     You may be better off asking this question on the illumos developers'
    > list, to see what the latest/greatest in supported HBA HW is.
    >
    >     Dan
    >
    >
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    Nathan Huff
    System Administrator
    Academic Health Center Information Systems
    University of Minnesota
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