On June 30 we had another crash of the storage system. At the time we were running the 2009.Q2.1.1 release. I was on holidays at the time it happened. My co-worker ended up rebooting the storage system and everything came back up. We didn’t call Sun for support on this; we were a few releases behind, many of which applied fixes for various system panicks, crashes and such. We scheduled downtime for an upgrade of the system. We are now on version 2009.Q2.3.1, and have been running smoothly since July 9th when we did the upgrade.
Performance wise, the system seems to be a good match for our environment. We haven’t had any complaints about slowness since getting past the MS Office file locking issues. I have been adding a few more Windows-based VMWare machines lately. You wouldn’t notice that there’s any more load than there was.
Craig | 08-Oct-09 at 10:44 am | Permalink
How have things been going with the 7410 lately? We are currently evaluating the updated 7410 cluster vs. a NetApp 3140 active-active filer. With the updates to the hardware on the 7410 unit, NetApp is actually coming in a little cheaper at this point, but performance wise I’m not sure its a fair comparison between the two. Not to mention that I haven’t yet got an idea of licensing costs for replication on the filer (which is included on the 7401). De-duplication is a key factor I like on the NetApp, but Sun keeps saying thats coming on the 7410. Thoughts?