Experience with EVA 5000 + Solaris?

Hi,

we have a couple of EVA 5000, I'm planning to put Solars/sparc's in
front of them as well as HP-UX/pa-risc and Linux/i386(compaq) (running
large fileservers on HP-UX is a constant pain and we have a lot more
Sun than HP as fileservers so I'd like to throw away HP as a
fileserver and only run Oracle on 'em), so my questions would be:

- Anyone else running with Sun on EVA 3k or 5k?

- What kind of FC-cards do you use (Sun or HP? Third party?)

- Any experience on support from HP on Sun-problems?

- What are you using to achieve full redundancy to the EVA? (On
HP-UX we'll be using securepath, I guess the same on Linux, I
haven't seen securepath for Solaris - and I'd like to stick to
something Sun will support, VxVM?)

- Are you running Sun Cluster (or Veritas Cluster)?

- Any other comments on such a setup are welcome!

Thanks!

-Sigurd
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Sigurd Mytting, UNIX/Storage-sysadmin, URL:http://www.usit.uio.no/
Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo, Norway

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 01:33:09 +0200, Sigurd Mytting
wrote:


Hi,

we have a couple of EVA 5000, I'm planning to put Solars/sparc's in
front of them as well as HP-UX/pa-risc and Linux/i386(compaq) (running
large fileservers on HP-UX is a constant pain and we have a lot more
Sun than HP as fileservers so I'd like to throw away HP as a
fileserver and only run Oracle on 'em), so my questions would be:

- Anyone else running with Sun on EVA 3k or 5k?

- What kind of FC-cards do you use (Sun or HP? Third party?)

- Any experience on support from HP on Sun-problems?

- What are you using to achieve full redundancy to the EVA? (On
HP-UX we'll be using securepath, I guess the same on Linux, I
haven't seen securepath for Solaris - and I'd like to stick to
something Sun will support, VxVM?)

- Are you running Sun Cluster (or Veritas Cluster)?

- Any other comments on such a setup are welcome!

Thanks!

-Sigurd

The product you'd use on all servers in HP EVA SAN environments will be
SecurePath - Sun, HP-UX, Linux (as well as Windows).

You need to check the SAN Design guides on the HP web site for up-to-date
information on which HBAs are support on which platforms.(and the drivers
and firmware requirements).

HTH.

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