Re: Current status of support for high end SAN hardware

2008-06-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Andy Kosela, who wrote on Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:41:24PM +0200 .. > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Russell Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The FreeBSD support for multipath/SAN is fairly poor. It's fiddly > > to get to work and boot times are a little variable (into the > > mi

Re: Current status of support for high end SAN hardware

2008-06-09 Thread Daniel Ponticello
u can have active/active. Am I right? Regards, Daniel Andy Kosela ha scritto: Hi all, What is the current status of support for high end SAN hardware in FreeBSD? I'm especially interested in support for HP EVA/XP disk arrays, Qlogic HBAs, multipathing. How FreeBSD compares in this envi

Re: Current status of support for high end SAN hardware

2008-06-09 Thread Andy Kosela
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Russell Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The FreeBSD support for multipath/SAN is fairly poor. It's fiddly > to get to work and boot times are a little variable (into the > minutes) as it tries to discover the devices. Once it is configured > and booted, it j

Re: Current status of support for high end SAN hardware

2008-06-09 Thread Stefan Lambrev
have active/active. Am I right? Regards, Daniel Andy Kosela ha scritto: Hi all, What is the current status of support for high end SAN hardware in FreeBSD? I'm especially interested in support for HP EVA/XP disk arrays, Qlogic HBAs, multipathing. How FreeBSD compares in this environme

Re: Current status of support for high end SAN hardware

2008-06-08 Thread Mark Saad
reeBSD 7-RELEASE and ZFS as the filesystem on the SAN. ZFS is hands down better then EXT3+LVM . Andy Kosela wrote: Hi all, What is the current status of support for high end SAN hardware in FreeBSD? I'm especially interested in support for HP EVA/XP disk arrays, Qlogic HBAs, multipathing.

Re: Current status of support for high end SAN hardware

2008-06-07 Thread Daniel Ponticello
On FreeBSD7, i'm succesfully using Qlogic 4gb fibre channel HBAs (ISP driver) attached to Fibre Brocade Switch and IBM DS4700 (14 disks array) using 4 way multipath with gmultipath. Regards, Daniel Andy Kosela ha scritto: Hi all, What is the current status of support for high en

Current status of support for high end SAN hardware

2008-06-07 Thread Andy Kosela
Hi all, What is the current status of support for high end SAN hardware in FreeBSD? I'm especially interested in support for HP EVA/XP disk arrays, Qlogic HBAs, multipathing. How FreeBSD compares in this environment to RHEL 5? -- Andy Kosela ora et l