[tech] FC array back online

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008, James Andrewartha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After getting a working b95 install on Adrian's Ultra 5 (harder than you'd 
> think) and plugging in a FC card from [TDH], the fibre channel array is 
> back online. Fortunately the zpool didn't lose any more disks so all the 
> data is still there. It's currently sitting on dhcp4 with manbo/musundo's 
> root password.
> 
> The current setup is not what I'd call production, even by UCC standards, 
> so suggestions on what to do next are invited.

.. hm, no responses?

* Buy small SATA drive caddy
* Buy largish SATA disks to go into caddy
* Buy suitable case, motherboard and a sensible SATA card, or a board with 5 or so SATA channels
  (intels work fine!)
* Get /services back online off -that- - (Open)Solaris + ZFS or FreeBSD + ZFS run fine
* Re-delegate the FC and Sun equipment into "play with" status.

Total cost for newish not-so-ghettoish services storage:

* $300 - caddy
* $150 - suitable case
* $16 - motherboard
* 4 x $25 - 4x1gb DDR2 ram stick
* 5 x $100 - terabyte sized disks of some variety
* $150 - CPU
* $80 - 500W PSU

Total cost: $1300

Or, if you don't care about IO, do it with an existing machine and use two
disks instead of 5.

2c,



Adrian