06-29-2009
Hi
Yes I've worked with the T3's before, used them in an Oracle Veritas Cluster at the time. Hardware RAID if I remember correctly but we only had a pair of them. We had a bad experience with it due to bad firmware which meant we lost one of the RAID 5 sets on it and had to recover from tape - not a very nice thing to happen.
All was ok with it once the firmware was updated but never had any confidence in it after that although it ran perfectly for 18 months after that before we replaced it.
Quite a bit newer than the other two bits of kit you've seen, still EOL but Sun have stated they will support it till 2011 if you pay them so spares should be around till then I would have thought.
I'd say its quite a bit more complicated than the A1000 or 5200 to set up but there should be plenty of documentation around if needed.
I'm not saying the T3 is a bad bit of kit, just my experience with it was one best forgotten.
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IIR(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual IIR(4)
NAME
iir -- Intel Integrated RAID controller and ICP Vortex driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device pci
device scbus
device iir
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
iir_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The iir driver claims to interface with the Intel integrated RAID controller cards, and all versions of the ICP Vortex controllers (including
FC).
HARDWARE
Controllers supported by the iir driver include:
o Intel RAID Controller SRCMR
o Intel Server RAID Controller U3-l (SRCU31a)
o Intel Server RAID Controller U3-1L (SRCU31La)
o Intel Server RAID Controller U3-2 (SRCU32)
o All past and future releases of Intel and ICP RAID Controllers.
o Intel RAID Controller SRCU21 (discontinued)
o Intel RAID Controller SRCU31 (older revision, not compatible)
o Intel RAID Controller SRCU31L (older revision, not compatible)
The SRCU31 and SRCU31L can be updated via a firmware update available from Intel.
SEE ALSO
cam(4), pass(4), xpt(4), camcontrol(8)
AUTHORS
The iir driver is supported and maintained by Achim Leubner <Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com>.
This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> and is based on information supplied by the driver authors and the website
of Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD
August 8, 2004 BSD