[Tfug] Sun/ EMC/ Veritas consultant recommendation?

[Harry McGregor]

I can check around and see...

With IBM's Storage group in town, you should be able to find someone local.

Speaking of IBM's storage group... If your interested in replacing the
EMC, take a look at www.xivstorage.com

                Harry

Zack Williams wrote:
>>> 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"?
>>     
>
> I haven't touched any of EMC's storage products, but older FC arrays
> aren't built with as many redundant features as recent ones - older
> models often don't have redundant FC links,  or don't have
> active/active controllers that can handle a controller failure.
>
> Or, it could also be the case of nobody monitoring it, at which point
> you'd only know after a double drive failure on RAID-5.
>
> <insert standard reminder here that RAID isn't backup>
>
> - Zack
>
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