[Tfug] Sun/ EMC/ Veritas consultant recommendation?

[David Rice]

I'm familiar with both veritias and solaris. Do you see all the luns when
you run format? If so if you send me a vxprint -th I could point you in the
right direction.


Thanks,

Dave

david.l.rice at gmail.com

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Harry McGregor <micros at osef.org> wrote:

> 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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