Re: SPARCstorage Array & Disksuite software
------------23ED73D34EFB1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii rcyrus@promarkone.com wrote: > > We are looking at purchasing these products! Anybody have any horror > stories or recommendations or experiences... > > robin cyrus > Sr. Informix DBA > Promark 1 inc. > Scottsdale AZ > -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet i have setup a few instances with storage arrays. all in all, they are pretty good. i don't have any experience with other stroage arrays, so i can't really rank it there. my only real problem is that disks aren't hot swappable. i did have an instance once where a disk went down, and i had to go through the whole recovery process by hand, when the system should have done it. it wasn't a big deal, but still, the software should have handled it. also, it was a disk that had a number of raid-5 partitions on it. i can't be positive, but i'm about 99.9% sure that after the new disk was installed and it went through the reocovery phase, which means rebuilding the data from the other partitions in the volume, it corrupted some of the data. i spent the next few days droppping and rebuilding indexes, tables, databases, and repairing pages by hand. it wasn't pretty, but wasn't too bad either. i guess that doesn't sound like the best of endorsements, but... since april of 96, the thing has been up and running with no problems, and good performance. i would question the sun rep about these things before you purchase it though, if you haven't already. hope that helps. mickm ------------23ED73D34EFB1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>rcyrus@promarkone.com wrote:<BR> > <BR> > We are looking at purchasing these products! Anybody have any horror<BR> > stories or recommendations or experiences...<BR> > <BR> > robin cyrus<BR> > Sr. Informix DBA<BR> > Promark 1 inc.<BR> > Scottsdale AZ<BR> > -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====-----------------------<BR> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet<BR> <BR></DT> <DT>i have setup a few instances with storage arrays. all in all, they are pretty good. i don't have any experience with other stroage arrays, so i can't really rank it there. my only real problem is that disks aren't hot swappable. i did have an instance once where a disk went down, and i had to go through the whole recovery process by hand, when the system should have done it. it wasn't a big deal, but still, the software should have handled it. also, it was a disk that had a number of raid-5 partitions on it. i can't be positive, but i'm about 99.9% sure that after the new disk was installed and it went through the reocovery phase, which means rebuilding the data from the other partitions in the volume, it corrupted some of the data. i spent the next few days droppping and rebuilding indexes, tables, databases, and repairing pages by hand. it wasn't pretty, but wasn't too bad either.</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>i guess that doesn't sound like the best of endorsements, but... since april of 96, the thing has been up and running with no problems, and good performance. i would question the sun rep about these things before you purchase it though, if you haven't already.</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>hope that helps.</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT> mickm </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------23ED73D34EFB1--