[Tfug] Sun/ EMC/ Veritas consultant recommendation?

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, Paul,

> After 4.5 good years we had a disastrous crash last week. 
> We have an older Sun V480 with an EMC FC5700 array and
> Veritas Volume Manager.  A component in the array failed. 

By "component" I assume you mean something that was not
a *drive* and was not "redundant"?

> The vendor with the support contract did not have the part
> on hand.  When the part was fixed, the Veritas software
> would not let the drives mount.  We felt that our support
> vendors (not local) let us down and extended the downtime.
> 
> Are there any consultants (local or otherwise) you would
> recommend with any of the following: Solaris/ EMC/ Veritas
> expertise?
> 
> The Oracle database was staged and is maintained by a CA
> company that has optimized it for our needs.  We do not want
> change things now (other than storing up spare parts).  We
> just want someone to call to help us get some more miles out
> of a generally adequate machine.  Please reply off-line.
> 
> -- Paul Steinbach
> psteinbach at cox.net
> Cell:   520.247.5730
> 
> 
> 
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