Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Matt B
the 4 database servers are part of an Oracle RAC configuration. 3 databases are hosted on these servers, BIGDB1 on all 4, littledb1 on the first 2, and littledb2 on the last two. The oracle backup system spawns db backup jobs that could occur on any node based on traffic and load. All nodes are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Victor Engle
On 8/25/07, Matt B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the 4 database servers are part of an Oracle RAC configuration. 3 databases are hosted on these servers, BIGDB1 on all 4, littledb1 on the first 2, and littledb2 on the last two. The oracle backup system spawns db backup jobs that could occur on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Anton B. Rang
Originally, we tried using our tape backup software to read the oracle flash recovery area (oracle raw device on a seperate set of san disks), however our backup software has a known issue with the the particular version of ORacle we are using. So one option is to get the backup vendor to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Matt B
Im not sure what you mean This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Dickon Hood
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:36:34 -0700, Matt B wrote: : Im not sure what you mean I think what he's trying to tell you is that you need to consult a storage expert. -- Dickon Hood Due to digital rights management, my .sig is temporarily unavailable. Normal service will be resumed as soon as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Matt B
Here is what seems to be the best course of action assuming IP over FC is supported by the HBA's (which I am pretty sure they so since this is all brand new equipment) Mount the shared disk backup lun on Node 1 via the FC link to the SAN as a non-redundant ZFS volume. On node 1 RMAN (oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Al Hopper
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Matt B wrote: snip I still wonder if NFS could be used over the FC network in some way similar to how NFS works over ethernet/tcp network If you're running Qlogic FC HBAs, you can run a TCP/IP stack over the FC links. That would allow NFS traffic over the FC

[zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1+hopspare on X4500 ,can I ?

2007-08-25 Thread zhanjinwei
Hi: I plan to configure the remaining 46 disk on X4500 : 5x(8+1) raid1 , 1 hot sapre Any problem? Does it means I can suffer 2 disk failure for each of the five group? thanks. zhanyang This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Kernel panic receiving incremental snapshots

2007-08-25 Thread Stuart Anderson
Before I open a new case with Sun, I am wondering if anyone has seen this kernel panic before? It happened on an X4500 running Sol10U3 while it was receiving incremental snapshot updates. Thanks. Aug 25 17:01:50 ldasdata6 ^Mpanic[cpu0]/thread=fe857d53f7a0: Aug 25 17:01:50 ldasdata6

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic receiving incremental snapshots

2007-08-25 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Stuart Anderson wrote: Before I open a new case with Sun, I am wondering if anyone has seen this kernel panic before? It happened on an X4500 running Sol10U3 while it was receiving incremental snapshot updates. Looks like it could be 6569719, which we expect to be fixed (in OpenSolaris)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-25 Thread Andre Wenas
I have tried tcpip over fc in the lab, the performance was no diff compare to gigabit ethernet. -Original Message- From: Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matt B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: 8/26/2007 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented