MFI vs. Megasas

[Javen Wu]

Rich,

You are right. Architecturally, raidctl(1M) is the the solaris generic 
RAID configuration tool.
And I believe MegaCLI will not be integrated into Solaris and we need 
raidctl
plugin finally. But before the raidctl plugin for Megasas get ready, I 
think MAYBE
megasas will follow aac(9D) and lsimega(9D) cases. (I guess it's depend 
on how
soon we develop raidctl plugin for megasas and the Time to Market of 
megasas driver.)

aac(9D) uses ASM provided by Adaptec to configure RAID before raidctl 
plugin ready.
lsimega(9D) uses megaRC provided by LSI to configure RAID before raidctl 
plugin ready.

But this is just my guess. Definitely, we need raidctl plugin for 
megasas and any
else RAID drivers. I mentioned MegaCLI here is just for emphasizing the 
advantage
of megasas and availability of megasas on SPARC.

Thanks
Javen

>But surely over in OpenSolaris land we have raidctl, which while
>currently specific to mpt-driven cards (I think), seems clearly
>intended to be generic.
>
>I assume that the mega_sas actually intend to integrate a raidctl plugin,
>rathar than a separate CLI?
>
>(though really, I should have saved that question until you came to
>the ARC with your own case, I guess...)
>
>-- Rich
>  
>