Nate Carlson writes: > I've put up a blog post on issues we're having with 3 brand new > Unified Storage 7210 arrays, available here: > > http://www.natecarlson.com/2010/02/23/sun-7210-designed-to-disappoint/
seems like you didn't get try'n'buy in writing, had a lousy sales rep, and did too little research on your own. > I'm curious if the symptoms (spurious halt, spurious vlan ipmp group > dropping, spurious reboots) that we are seeing are common for the > X4540 machine, or if you think it's likely to be a problem with the > way Sun rolls the Unified Storage software package. we don't have any 7210's so I can't comment on that. we've had some issues with the firmware on 7410 (hardware has been fine), and Sun has worked pretty hard to solve them. there are still some kinks to work out, but we're hopeful that the next major release will solve them. (network/service outage for 30-60 seconds when adding a new VLAN to the trunk is the current biggest issue.) > If it is a software issue, and we are unable to return these machines, > I'm considering running either OpenSolaris or NexentaStor on the > hardware.. hoping that it's a software issue and not hardware. ;) I don't get it, don't you have a support contract for this equipment? we've had direct contact with Sun engineers in the US when the Norwegian technicians lack the in-depth expertise. appropriate escalation has not been a problem. however, since you don't have any clustering features anyway, you might be just as happy with plain OpenSolaris. you lose the pretty web UI for Analytics, and you need to run the development version (COMSTAR in 2009.06 is quite slow and has seen lots of improvements since then). > (Going OpenSol or Nexenta would also let us add our own SSD's without > worrying about Sun complaining about it.. $400 for 32gb x25-e's sounds > a lot better than $6k for an 18gb Logzilla!) unfortunately, that x25-e is useless since its write cache is not reliable when power is cut. kind of defeats the point when used for ZIL... in addition, it is quite a bit slower than the Zeus Sun rebrands as Logzilla. -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
