> 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 supported. We received it and set it up, and from the start got scsi errors from the array when configuring devices. (This is before even touching ZFS; at this stage we just wanted to run fdisk.) It took a while to find someone at Promise, and when they did they wouldn't open a case ticket because, they said, Solaris was unsupported. When I went back to their web site -- a horrible site, by the way -- the tech sheet had been replaced with one that did NOT list Solaris among the supported OSes, although the author and date of the PDF file were the same. I wrote to my contact at Promise, but they held to their guns on the non-support even after I sent them copies of both PDFs. I cajoled my Sun account manager into connecting us with someone who might be able to figure it out, but no one could. It took several months to get Promise to agree to refund our unit, and only because our retailer (CDW) took the reins and held on tight. Promise stopped returning my e-mail long before that. Others may have different fortune with them; we were using the dual-controller FC Vtrak, whatever the model number is, and maybe other interfaces work better. But after the support issue, I wouldn't dare touch them again for use on Solaris. -- -D. d...@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
