On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I haven't used a J4500, but when we had an x4500 (Thumper) on loan they > had Solaris pretty well integrated with the hardware. When a disk failed, I > used cfgadm to offline it and as soon as I did that a bright blue "Ready to > Remove" LED lit up on the drive tray of the faulty disk, right next to the > handle you need to lift to remove the drive. > > There's also a bright red "Fault" LED as well as the standard green "OK" LED, > so spotting failed drives really should be a piece of cake. Certainly in my > tests, so long as you followed the procedure in the manual it really is > impossible to get the wrong drive. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/external_storage_enclosures_in_solaris has a bit more info on some of this -- while I would expect Sun products to integrate that well, it's nice to know the framework is there for other vendors to do the same if they wish. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
