Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-04-03 Thread Frank Cusack
i just called them. zero. however, they claim only 2-3 day order time. On March 30, 2009 4:56:21 PM -0400 Blake wrote: no idea how many of these there are: http://www.google.com/products?q=570-1182&hl=en&show=li 2009/3/30 Tim : On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Mike Futerko wrote: Hell

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-30 Thread Bryan Allen
| > FWIW, it looks like someone at Sun saw the complaints in this thread and or | > (more likely) had enough customer complaints. ??It appears you can buy the | > tray independently now. ??Although, it's $500 (so they're apparently made | > entirely of diamond and platinum). ??In Sun marketing's de

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
no idea how many of these there are: http://www.google.com/products?q=570-1182&hl=en&show=li 2009/3/30 Tim : > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Mike Futerko wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> > 1) Dual IO module option >> > 2) Multipath support >> > 3) Zone support [multi host connecting to same JBOD

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-30 Thread Tim
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Mike Futerko wrote: > Hello > > > 1) Dual IO module option > > 2) Multipath support > > 3) Zone support [multi host connecting to same JBOD or same set of JBOD's > > connected in series. ] > > This sounds interesting - where I can read more about connecting two >

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-30 Thread Mike Futerko
Hello > 1) Dual IO module option > 2) Multipath support > 3) Zone support [multi host connecting to same JBOD or same set of JBOD's > connected in series. ] This sounds interesting - where I can read more about connecting two hosts to same J4200 etc? Thanks Mike _

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-28 Thread Miles Nordin
> "b" == Blake writes: b> ZFS can preserve data all day long, but that doesn't help much b> if the controller misbehaves the most common kind of controller, or rather driver, misbehavior is to time out commands to failed drives while ZFS waits inappropriately long, or to freeze ac

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-28 Thread Blake
>> Fax +90212335 >> Email mertol.ozyo...@sun.com >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org >> [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling >> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:2

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-27 Thread jpdrawneek
: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:24 PM To: John-Paul Drawneek Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers John-Paul Drawneek wrote: the J series i

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-27 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
n.com -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:24 PM To: John-Paul Drawneek Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers John

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 1, 2009 8:30:21 AM -0800 Frank Cusack wrote: nevermind, i will just get a Promise array. Don't. I don't normally like to badmouth vendors, but my experience with Promise was one of the worst in my career, for reasons that should be relevant other ZFS-oriented customers. recommen

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-02 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-02-02 09:46:49, casper@sun.com wrote: | | And think of all the money it costs to stock and distribute that | separate part. (And our infrastructure is still expensive; too expensive | for a $5 part) Fa

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-02 Thread Casper . Dik
>The drives that Sun sells will come with the correct bracket. >Ergo, there is no reason to sell the bracket as a separate >item unless the customer wishes to place non-Sun disks in >them. That represents a service liability for Sun, so they are >not inclined to do so. It is really basic busine

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-02-01 20:55:46, Richard Elling wrote: | | The astute observer will note that the bracket for the X41xx family | works elsewhere. For example, | http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Elling
Bryan Allen wrote: > +-- > | On 2009-02-01 16:29:59, Richard Elling wrote: > | > | The drives that Sun sells will come with the correct bracket. > | Ergo, there is no reason to sell the bracket as a separate > | item unles

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am worried that Sun is primarily interested in new business and > tends to not offer replacement/new drives for as long as the actual > service-life of the array. What is the poor customer to do when Sun > is no longer willing to offer a service con

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Richard Elling wrote: > The drives that Sun sells will come with the correct bracket. > Ergo, there is no reason to sell the bracket as a separate > item unless the customer wishes to place non-Sun disks in > them. That represents a service liability for Sun, so they are > not

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-02-01 16:29:59, Richard Elling wrote: | | The drives that Sun sells will come with the correct bracket. | Ergo, there is no reason to sell the bracket as a separate | item unless the customer wishes to place

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Richard Elling wrote: > The drives that Sun sells will come with the correct bracket. > Ergo, there is no reason to sell the bracket as a separate > item unless the customer wishes to place non-Sun disks in > them. That represents a service liability for Sun, so they are > no

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Sun, February 1, 2009 14:24, Richard Elling wrote: > John-Paul Drawneek wrote: >> the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. >> >> Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious reasons >> > > The obvious reason is that Sun cannot service random disk > drives you buy fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Elling
Tim wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Richard Elling > mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > John-Paul Drawneek wrote: > > the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. > > > > Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious > reasons >

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 1, 2009 12:02:11 PM -0800 Frédéric VANNIERE wrote: > J4200 is cheap compared to custom made solutions (Supermicro + 3Ware). i can't see how that math works. by the time i fully populate a J4200 (12TB), Sun charges in the $10k neighborhood. i can do this using Promise or Xtore or wh

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 1, 2009 12:24:08 PM -0800 Richard Elling wrote > John-Paul Drawneek wrote: >> the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. >> >> Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious reasons >> > > The obvious reason is that Sun cannot service random disk > drives you b

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Tim wrote: > I don't think anyone is asking Sun to service disks that aren't > theirs, but to claim that's a reason for not selling drive trays is > crap. You already claimed in the other thread that Sun has > contracts for custom disks so they don't have to worry about sho

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:45:28 -0600 Tim wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Richard Elling > wrote: > > > John-Paul Drawneek wrote: > > > the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. > > > > > > Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious > > > reasons > > > > > > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > John-Paul Drawneek wrote: > > the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. > > > > Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious reasons > > > > The obvious reason is that Sun cannot service random disk > drives you buy

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Elling
John-Paul Drawneek wrote: > the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. > > Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious reasons > The obvious reason is that Sun cannot service random disk drives you buy from Fry's (or elsewhere). People who value data tend to value ser

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Frédéric VANNIERE
J4200 is cheap compared to custom made solutions (Supermicro + 3Ware). Ask a Sun reseller for a quote. There is also the Sun Startup Essentials program with great prices on storage systems. Last year I've bought an Infortrend RAID array with custom disks but today I would choose a J4400 + 24 T

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:30, Frank Cusack wrote: > recommendations for an alternative? At work we just ordered a Supermicro CSE-846E1-R900B [1]: 24 hot-swap bays, redundant 900W power supplies, LSI SAS expander. This doesn't quite make a JBOD by itself (it's designed to be used as a case for a w

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Tim
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: > >> nevermind, i will just get a Promise array. > > > > Don't. I don't normally like to badmouth vendors, but my experience > > with Promise was one of the worst in my career, for reasons that should > > be relevant other ZFS-oriented custome

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Frank Cusack
>> nevermind, i will just get a Promise array. > > Don't. I don't normally like to badmouth vendors, but my experience > with Promise was one of the worst in my career, for reasons that should > be relevant other ZFS-oriented customers. recommendations for an alternative?

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-01-31 Thread David Champion
> nevermind, i will just get a Promise array. Don't. I don't normally like to badmouth vendors, but my experience with Promise was one of the worst in my career, for reasons that should be relevant other ZFS-oriented customers. We ordered a Promise array because their tech sheet said Solaris was

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-01-31 Thread John-Paul Drawneek
the J series is far to new to be hitting ebay yet. Any alot of people will not be buying the J series for obvious reasons -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-01-30 Thread Richard Elling
Frank Cusack wrote: > apparently if you don't order a J4200 with drives, you just get filler > sleds that won't accept a hard drive. (had to look at a parts breakdown > on sunsolve to figure this out -- the docs should simply make this clear.) > > it looks like the sled that will accept a drive is

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-01-30 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 30, 2009 1:31:46 PM -0800 Frank Cusack wrote: > apparently if you don't order a J4200 with drives, you just get filler > sleds that won't accept a hard drive. (had to look at a parts breakdown > on sunsolve to figure this out -- the docs should simply make this clear.) > > it looks li

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-01-30 Thread Sean Sprague
Frank, > apparently if you don't order a J4200 with drives, you just get filler > sleds that won't accept a hard drive. (had to look at a parts breakdown > on sunsolve to figure this out -- the docs should simply make this clear.) > > it looks like the sled that will accept a drive is part #570-1

[zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-01-30 Thread Frank Cusack
apparently if you don't order a J4200 with drives, you just get filler sleds that won't accept a hard drive. (had to look at a parts breakdown on sunsolve to figure this out -- the docs should simply make this clear.) it looks like the sled that will accept a drive is part #570-1182. anyone know