On 08/16/2013 07:51 PM, Tony Schreiner wrote: > I am wondering if any one knows of a way to manage Xyratex disk shelves from > CentOS (in particular CentOS 4). > > More details: > Some years ago I installed a NAS unit from Exanet which consists of 2 > rebadged IBM x3650 head nodes and a couple of Xyratex disk shelves with a > total of 96 TB of raw disk, connected by fibre channel. The operating system > is based on CentOS 4.4, but is modified, and runs a proprietary file system. > It has pretty good performance and I'm happy with it. > > You may know that the company went bust some years ago, so I have been > running this system unsupported. I am loath to give up the disk space though. > > The two things I worry about are, the fibre channel connection and the > external disk trays. Unfortunately, what I know about fibre channel is very > little. They are emulex HBAs, and I guess there used to software called > lputil, but this is no longer available at the Emulex site. It has been > replaced by something called HBAnywhere, but I have not succeeded in building > that on CentOS 4. Uprading the OS is out of the question I would think while > maintaining the file system capability. > > And the other question is how to manage the LUNs on the Xyratex's. > > I'd be grateful for any info anyone has on either. > > Tony Schreiner
Have you tried to locate ex employees of that Company? Maybe you could hire some developer from that Company to help you out? -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
