<div dir="ltr">I believe napp-it based on OmniOS also boots from USB. The mirroring is hard because I don't think it is a native ZFS boot -- works more like a ram disk.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Chris Nehren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnehren+omnios-discuss@omniti.com" target="_blank">cnehren+omnios-discuss@omniti.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54:50 +0000, Ben Summers wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I'm speccing out some new hardware. It seems challenging to get vendor supported configurations which give you lots of discs on a Solarish OS, rather than using horrid RAID cards.<br>
><br>
> The best config I've found so far seems to be a Fujitsu RX200 with 4 internal 15k SAS discs (the internal supported card can only do 8 drives if you use RAID), plus a Fujitsu branded LSI controller connected to an Intel 3.5" JBOD array for bulk storage and maybe an SSD for ZIL.<br>
><br>
> Because I'd like to use all the internal discs for a database as a pair of mirrors in a single JBOD, I was wondering if anyone boots from USB discs?<br>
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</div>SmartOS is designed to run from USB drives. I don't know if their<br>
configuration supports mirroring, though.<br>
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