On 01/ 6/11 05:28 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: Khushil Dep [mailto:khushil....@gmail.com]
I've deployed large SAN's on both SuperMicro 825/826/846 and Dell
R610/R710's and I've not found any issues so far. I always make a point of
installing Intel chipset NIC's on the DELL's and disabling the Broadcom ones
but other than that it's always been plain sailing - hardware-wise anyway.
"not found any issues," "except the broadcom one which causes the system to crash
regularly in the default factory configuration."
How did you learn about the broadcom issue for the first time? I had to learn
the hard way, and with all the involvement of both Dell and Oracle support
teams, nobody could tell me what I needed to change. We literally replaced
every component of the server twice over a period of 1 year, and I spent
mandays upgrading and downgrading firmwares randomly trying to find a stable
configuration. I scoured the internet to find this little tidbit about
replacing the broadcom NIC, and randomly guessed, and replaced my nic with an
intel card to make the problem go away.
The same system doesn't have a problem running RHEL/centos.
What will be the new problem in the next line of servers? Why, during my
internet scouring, did I find a lot of other reports, of people who needed to
disable c-states (didn't work for me) and lots of false leads indicating
firmware downgrade would fix my broadcom issue?
See my point? Next time I buy a server, I do not have confidence to simply
expect solaris on dell to work reliably. The same goes for solaris
derivatives, and all non-sun hardware. There simply is not an adequate
qualification and/or support process.
When you purchase NexentaStor from a top-tier Nexenta Hardware Partner,
you get a product that has been through a rigorous qualification process
which includes the hardware and software configuration matched together,
tested with an extensive battery. You also can get a higher level of
support than is offered to people who build their own systems.
Oracle is *not* the only company capable of performing in depth testing
of Solaris.
I can also know enough about problems that Oracle customers (or rather
Sun customers) faced with Solaris on Sun hardware -- such as the
terrible nvidia ethernet problems on first generation U20 and U40
problems, or the marvell SATA problems on Thumper -- that I know that
your picture of Oracle isn't nearly as rosy as you believe. Of course,
I also lived (as a Sun employee) through the UltraSPARC-II ECC fiasco...
- Garrett
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