So, I've been trying to attach a disk array to one of my servers at work for about 3 months now. But, there's always something going on with that server, so scheduling any downtime at all is a royal pain in the ass.
I FINALLY got it all installed and functional on Wednesday. I moved some data off of local disks onto the array and the IO speed went through the roof. Needless to say, I was quite the hero!
Naturally, that didn't last. Exactly one day later, the damn thing completely crashed on me. And, of course, the customers were going nuts because they're way behind and working long hours to catch up - understandable.
Anyway, I drive into work only to find that one of the so-called failover controllers didn't failover properly and took the whole array out of commission. I tried forcing a failover, but alas no joy.
After exhausting all my options, I finally had to power off the array (they love it when you do that) and pray that the couple hundred gb's of data was still salvageable.
After a couple of hours of holding my breath and verifying/copying/restoring data, everything seems to be ok. The controllers are both up and cheerful, and the log files are conspicuously empty of content. It's ALMOST as if nothing happened - only, I know better!
What kills me is that I know that moving to the array was the wisest course of action. And I know that Sun equipment is, for the most part, hugely reliable. But godammit, I just can't catch a break!
Anyway, I'm planning on moving everything back to the internal disks (which will probably crash the server) and running a bunch of diagnostics against the array. If I can't find the root cause of the crash, I'm tossing the damn thing in the dumpster.
Yay me!
Now, go buy one of my houses!!
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Call Sun. They'll tell you you're behind on firmware and they're nothing they can do for you.
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