My First JBOD, Part 2: Irony

After unpack­ing, rack­ing, and mount­ing the JBOD, I waited until the week­end had started before pow­er­ing down the server and installing the RAID card. Connected it all up, rebooted into the Adaptec BIOS, and con­fig­ured the 6x 1TB dri­ves into a RAID6 array. After that, I installed the RAID StorageManager off of Sun’s web­site, and …

My First JBOD: Introduction

This is me set­ting up a JBOD for use by one or more XEN hosts, using pro­fes­sional hard­ware. It’s not a hack, not throw­ing a shit­load of dri­ves into a PC with some “pro­sumer” SATA RAID cards that require you spend weeks fuss­ing with dri­vers and firmware to get even a min­i­mal write per­for­mance out …