[CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Tuesday 12 January 2010, John R Pierce wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote:
> >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the
> >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail
> >>
> >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running
> >> Centos 5.4 on it...
> >
> > I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at
> > another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the
> > machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate
> > has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then.
> >
> > all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64
>
> just curious, which storage controllers in those DL380/360 servers?
> each of those numbes describes like 6 generations of x86 servers.
>
> if I want a lots-of-2.5" SAS dual e5500 kinda server, where should I go
> if HP's storage is so broken?

As I replied to another post, I think it's unfair to say that HP storage is 
broken. We have roughly:
 30 p400 (mostly 2x raid1)
 50 p800 (mostly 12x1T raid6)
 <10 other cciss

and the only problems we really suffer is:
 * performance is not great
 * /dev/cciss is not a scsi dev (which is a minor annoyance in linux at times)
 * 1T seagate drives fail at many times the rate of hitachi

/Peter 
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