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I can't speak for Clariion on Sun,
but I support Win2K/Oracle 8.1.7 on a Clariion fc4700 and
Sym 8530.
The sym has been great. The Clariion
is pretty good, but is a bit slower than the sym. It's much easier to
manage though.
It hasn't quite lived up the promise
of being able to upgrade it without shutting down. there were 2
instances where something that should be a hot upgrade crashed our system.
Another time a flare upgrade required me to update all the clients which
required me to reboot them. Even with these issues, I'm very happy with our
EMC hardware.
One last story.
I ran into an interesting issue with
the Clariion last Wednesday. I just setup a new QA server and needed to
test the snap start command that runs on all of our servers attached to the
Clariion. To my surprise, and everyone in the Dev and QA, it caused the Clariion
to reboot and pulling the drives out from all attached systems. I have dual
paths setup on it, but Powerpath won't help you when both processors get
rebooted. EMC couldn't believe it, so when their engineer got there, I ran the
script on another server and all was well. I then ran it on the
new server and sure enough - it rebooted. After getting no answer from
them, I uninstalled and reinstalled the ADMsnap software and it worked without
rebooting. go figure.
<MS jabbing>
I'm more inclined to blame MS and not
EMC for the problems ;)
</MS jabbing>
Steve
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