[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

[Pete Ashdown]

This gives me some pause as I'm in the process of replacing Nexenta boxes that
also had flakey reliability.  Is anyone using 148 in an enterprise situation
with Supermicro?

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have a few servers running openindiana 148, and it's been running rather well for some time. Lately, however, we've seen some hichups that may be related to the platform, rather than the hardware. The actual errors have been variable. Some issues were due to some supermicro backplanes that tended to fail, causing drives to report massive i/o errors. But then, the really bad ones are issues where zfs reports bad drives even though iostat report them as good. So far, we haven't lost a pool, it has been sorted out, but I still wonder what happens if I'm gone for a few weeks and something like that happens.
> 
> The systems where we have had issues, are two 100TB boxes, with some 160TB "raw" storage each, so licensing this with nexentastor will be rather expensive. What would you suggest? Will a solaris express install give us good support when the shit hits the fan?