On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:01:42AM +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli?
I don't dislike tw_cli. At least, I like it much better than the old afacli/aaccli, and I also like having 3dm2 send out email alerts in addition to monitoring using tw_cli. (I have a short nagios plugin I've written to parse the tw_cli output, as well; it's not all that great, but if others are interested I will send it offlist.)
I have seen some of the other issues you mentioned, which is one reason I have been considering other vendors (and, I suppose, software RAID, though less seriously).
--keith