Hey everybody, happy new year and some great news for the ZFSSA...
The new 2u disk trays have come out early. I was not expecting them until later this quarter, but was surprised yesterday that Oracle announced them ready for sale. Sweet. So we now have a 4u capacity tray for 3TB drives (soon to be 4TB drives), and a 2u high-performance tray with either 300GB or 900GB 10K speed drives. These new 900GB 10K speed drives have the same IOPS as our current 600GB 15K speed drives, since the form factor went from 3.5" to 2.5". So you now can have 24 drives in a 2u tray. Very cool. These new trays require OS 2011.1.5, and right now you can NOT mix them with the older DS2 trays. Being able to mix them will be supported later, however.
To go along with that, the new 2011.1.5 code has been released. you can download it right now in MOS. It fixes a ridiculous amount of issues, as well as supports these new 2u drive trays. You can read all about the new code here: https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=15826899
Enjoy!
