Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-14 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 13/02/18 15:56, Buterbaugh, Kevin L wrote: Hi JAB, OK, let me try one more time to clarify. I’m not naming the vendor … they’re a small maker of commodity storage and we’ve been using their stuff for years and, overall, it’s been very solid. The problem in this specific case is that a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-13 Thread Buterbaugh, Kevin L
Hi JAB, OK, let me try one more time to clarify. I’m not naming the vendor … they’re a small maker of commodity storage and we’ve been using their stuff for years and, overall, it’s been very solid. The problem in this specific case is that a major version firmware upgrade is required … if

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-13 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 15:07 +, Buterbaugh, Kevin L wrote: > Hi All, > > Since several people have made this same suggestion, let me respond > to that.  We did ask the vendor - twice - to do that.  Their response > boils down to, “No, the older version has bugs and we won’t send you > a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-09 Thread Paul Ward
, Kevin L Sent: 09 February 2018 15:08 To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop Hi All, Since several people have made this same suggestion, let me respond to that. We did ask the vendor - twice -

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-09 Thread Buterbaugh, Kevin L
Hi All, Since several people have made this same suggestion, let me respond to that. We did ask the vendor - twice - to do that. Their response boils down to, “No, the older version has bugs and we won’t send you a controller with firmware that we know has bugs in it.” We have not had a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-09 Thread Paul Ward
-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of Buterbaugh, Kevin L Sent: 08 February 2018 16:00 To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop Hi All, We are in

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-08 Thread Edward Wahl
Richard > > From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org > [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of Buterbaugh, > Kevin L Sent: 08 February 2018 16:00 To: gpfsug main discussion list > <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] mmch

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-08 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:25:33 +, "Oesterlin, Robert" said: > unmountOnDiskFail > The unmountOnDiskFail specifies how the GPFS daemon responds when a disk > failure is detected. The valid values of this parameter are yes, no, and meta. > The default value is no. I suspect that the only

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-08 Thread Oesterlin, Robert
cussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop So … what I was wondering if I could do is to use mmchdisk to either suspend or (preferably) stop those NSDs, do the firmware upgrade, and resume the NSDs? The problem I see is that suspend

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-08 Thread Sobey, Richard A
-boun...@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of Buterbaugh, Kevin L Sent: 08 February 2018 16:00 To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop Hi All, We are in a bit of a dif

[gpfsug-discuss] mmchdisk suspend / stop

2018-02-08 Thread Buterbaugh, Kevin L
Hi All, We are in a bit of a difficult situation right now with one of our non-IBM hardware vendors (I know, I know, I KNOW - buy IBM hardware! ) and are looking for some advice on how to deal with this unfortunate situation. We have a non-IBM FC storage array with dual-“redundant”