[lug] Promise Vtrak performance

[User Dan Ferris]

That doesn't suprise me.  Our "high end" arrays are Nexsans.  If the 
Promise arrays are pure crap, the Nexsans are only one step above crap.

The only difference between the Promise and the Nexsan is that the Nexsan 
doesn't crash quite as much and you can grow the size of the volumes.

So far the most fun thing I did to a Nexsan is to crash the web UI by 
polling it with Smokeping 5 times every 5 minutes.

Dan


On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:21:58PM -0700, User Dan Ferris wrote:
>> and then ends with the array vanishing from the fabric.  [...]
>
> Interesting.  A client of ours has a SATABeast with 40 1TB drives in a 4U
> chassis that is experiencing exactly this problem.  And fairly low
> performance when the array is accessed via NFS (NFS server being Linux,
> connected via FC to the array), unless async is turned on.
>
> I haven't used any of the Promise arrays.  We have one client with some
> that they absolutely love, another who absolutely hates them.
>
> Sean
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