[OpenAFS] openafs fileservers in VMware ESX

[Matthew Cocker]

Do you use the Dell powervaults and any of the scsi perc raid cards? We 
do and they have been a huge problem. Not just for us but all over the 
university. They seem to work better for windows but one of the windows 
shops also lost a server last year to a single failed drive in a raid5 
set which then failed to rebuild.

We had some thing like 80 dell servers and the plain old servers work 
fine, it was just the add in raid cards and powervaults that caused the 
issues.

Cheers

Matt

>     
>     Wow, your experience is opposite mine.  I swear
> by Dell servers, and have used nothing but in the past
> 7 years or so.  No major problems at all, and over that
> time we have only lost one drive in a RAID system, and it
> rebuilt just fine.  We cycle out the critical servers every 3-4 years,
> but we have some of the older servers doing non-critical things, and
> they are still going strong.  Strange that we are having
> such opposite experiences.
> 
> -Dj
>