# [OmniOS-discuss] HP Proliant Gen9 server

Trey Palmer trey at mailchimp.com
Fri Oct 16 04:38:49 UTC 2015

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    B140i is standard AHCI with a fakeraid mode per HP's docs, so it probably
    works okay.

    B120i works fine, and it looks B140i is the same thing but supports more
    disks.

    We also run OmniOS on DL380Gen8's, but with LSI2x08 cards and Intel X520's
    (ixgbe) vice the onboard controllers.   That setup works well.   I have a
    Gen9 with an LSI card racked in to test but haven't gotten to it yet.

    One really nice thing about the DL380Gen9 is that you can get a 24xSFF
    version with no SAS expanders.

    Somewhat relevant:   I tested a 60-disk 4.3U SL4540 Gen8 earlier this year,
    using the mezzanine H220 (which is an LSI mpt_sas chipset, the PCIe version
    looks like a bog standard 920x-8i).   The box takes two mezzanine cards
    which reminded me a little of Sparc 20 SBus cards.

    There's a PCIe riser available for the upper socket, but you can't use it
    for an HBA because the only connection to the disks is through the
    mezzanine sockets.

    The mezzanine H220 was the most pathological mpt_sas card I've ever
    encountered.   The disks would just disconnect completely.  It could be the
    weird connection or the SAS expanders or anything else (disks were He8
    SAS).   It just felt risky and we punted on the non-standard hardware after
    trying several firmware versions even though we loved the form factor.

    The "onboard 10GbE" turns out to be Mellanox ConnectX3, with one QSFP and
    one SFP.   It has two SFF AHCI SATA system drives (B120i) per server
    module.   You can get it with one or several nodes in the chassis, 1x60,
    2x25 or 3x15.   It seems purpose-built for the HDFS/Ceph/GlusterFS
    communities.

       -- Trey

    On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Lawrence Giam <paladinemishakal at gmail.com>
    wrote:

    > Hi All,
    >
    > I am looking at whether to get HP Proliant Gen9 server and running OmniOS
    > on it. Does anyone have any experience with this generation of server? Is
    > the RAID controller (either the B140i or the H240) supported by illumos? I
    > did a search and cannot find any result in the hardware compatability list.
    >
    > Thanks & Regards.
    >
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