[OmniOS-discuss] Ang: Re: Ang: Rolling FW upgrade on LSI 9207

[Stephan Budach]

Hi Johan,

Am 22.01.15 um 11:19 schrieb Johan Kragsterman:
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> Stephan!
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> Well, I didn't consider data loss as the problem, but service down time, since you are reluctant to take it down, it is probably a problem for you with down time. And if down time for firmware upgrade a problem for you, I'm sure downtime for fixing a major firmware issue or a bricked HBA problem would be a lot worse...
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> Regarding your planning for HA setup, it is most interesting for this list, since A LOT OF PEOLPLE have discussed it here, and major concerns have been expressed.
Yeah, I know. I know of a number of threads, that circle around HA 
setups and I yet don't even know, how I will do it. I am running an 
Oracle VM cluster and currently two different setups provide the shared 
storage for it. One of them is this OmniOS box, where the 9207 went nuts 
and caused the lock-up of the whole system. It will likely boil down to 
a NFS-HA setup, if that's possible, but the question will be, how the 
backend storage will be provided.
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> It would be interesting to follow your project on the list, not only for me, but MANY on this list, I'm sure!!!
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> So, would you be interested in sharing your HA project with the list?
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> I don't think the list so far been involved in a project that you could follow from start to goal, so that would be very interesting, as well as to be able to follow your choice of infrastructure and sofware solutions!
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> I also guess, that for you, to share this with the list, would give you a nice support, since you would involve a lot of people with a lot of experience...
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> If you choose to share this with the list, pls start a new thread with perhaps: HA project as the subject.
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> If you like, I can start the thread with asking you questions about your project?
If anybody is interested in how my project is going, I will be happily 
provide any information, as long as it fits to OmniOS. OmniOS got me 
really hooked and I do like it a lot, but we do already have a RAC 
setup, which makes an excellent choice for a cluster, so it could also 
be, that the NFS shares might be served by those nodes. In the end 
you'll always have to pick the tool, which is best suited for the job. ;)

Cheers,
budy