Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > > On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >>> We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but > >>> not fast. > >> > >> Heard this a few times now, in the interest of get

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >If you really want to go with a HW controller, try Areca or the high- > >end 3Ware models. > > Well, for non Solaris/non file servers, hardware raid is easiest. I am > hesitant to go with Areca (looks like cheap tw stuff). I have always used > LS

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP / Sun Solaris hdd led blinking

2009-08-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:04:58PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 22.08.2009 um 12:37 schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen: > > > >Uhm.. Solaris/zfs can't really light-up the failure lights on Sun's > >own > >hardware? > > > Of course it can - on SUN's own hardware. > But you can run Solaris on almost

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 22.08.2009 um 12:37 schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen: Uhm.. Solaris/zfs can't really light-up the failure lights on Sun's own hardware? Of course it can - on SUN's own hardware. But you can run Solaris on almost any hardware - and that turns into a problem sometimes. Like in this case... ZFS

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:40:24PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > > > On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >>> We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but > >>> not fast. > >> > >> Heard this a few times now

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread John R Pierce
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I have always used LSI stuff but found them slow as hell, I am pretty sure > the hp sa's are LSI > chips... > for a server, random IO operations per second is usually more important than sequential burst read/write. I've found many server RAID cards excell at IOP

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 21:07 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: >> If you really want to go with a HW controller, try Areca or the high- >> end 3Ware models. > > Well, for non Solaris/non file servers, hardware raid is easiest. True. Replacing disks is much easier for sure. > I am > hesitant to go with Arec

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>If you really want to go with a HW controller, try Areca or the high- >end 3Ware models. Well, for non Solaris/non file servers, hardware raid is easiest. I am hesitant to go with Areca (looks like cheap tw stuff). I have always used LSI stuff but found them slow as hell, I am pretty sure the hp

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread RedShift
Hello Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > >> On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. >>> Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something >>> b

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but >>> not fast. >> >> Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something >> better >> next time, what have you f

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. > > Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something better > next time, what have you found equally reliable but faster? Nothing as cheap as a full dl185

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something better next time, what have you found equally reliable but faster? >- hpacucli requires you to twist your brain sideways (syntax) Heh, that's no doubt:) ___

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Mag Gam wrote: > I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with P400 > and P800 controller. How reliable are they for a 24x7 shop? We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. We've had one flaky controller in 30 controller

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-20 Thread Christopher Chan
Mag Gam wrote: > Well, I am poor and so is my school. > Hear, hear > We want to setup a cheap storage farm so I was asking what is people's > opinions on the the controller and the disks :-) > Cor, looks like it is not just me having to think of a storage farm. Over here, some downtime (a

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Well, I am poor and so is my school. > >We want to setup a cheap storage farm so I was asking what is people's >opinions on the the controller and the disks :-) It's rock solid, I am sure you wont have issues... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-20 Thread Mag Gam
Well, I am poor and so is my school. We want to setup a cheap storage farm so I was asking what is people's opinions on the the controller and the disks :-) On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Mag Gam wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-20 Thread John R Pierce
Mag Gam wrote: > I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with P400 > and P800 controller. How reliable are they for a 24x7 shop? > well, its not 5-nines stuff, there's all kinda single points of failure. you want 0.9 kinda reliability, you need a fully redundant syst