Don, Our stance would be to go with RedHat on bnx and hba drivers - their updates seem to be on target. One other point of consideration when it comes to hba is that many vendors i.e. Emulex and EMC in our case have a support matrix which strictly adheres to a stock version of hba driver and O.S. Example, if you were to install RHEL 4.6, you must be running version 8.2.0.2 of HBA drivers.
If HP PSP upgrades the version, deviating from that matrix would make us non-compliant. Something to consider.. -ilya -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vanco Backup Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:53 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 4, 5, 6 and deployment of HP PSP On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Musayev, Ilya <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list members, > > We are in process of evaluating HP PSP, in past we would deny the deployment > of PSP for various reasons (mostly vendor support, stability and security). > > I would like to see your feedback on what services/packages you deploy on > your production environment for HP PSP and what issues have you experienced > (i.e during OS upgrade, system packages, etc). Real world feedback counts > the most and your feedback is appreciated, Not a lot to add other than to say that drivers might be worthy of a little more examination - there was a time in the not-too-distant past where there was a bug present in the RH bnx2x driver that HP addressed in a PSP. But - for the most part, they are not required. One other point of consideration is that HP support might take exception to the exclusion of the HP fibre drivers, but use your discretion (I'd not deviate from SPOCK/STREAMS SAN support guidelines, but then I'm just an implementation consultant and have to turn things over to my customer for long-term care & feeding). The HP driver scripts in the RPMs have a tendency to be REALLY sloppy about initrd/grub.conf and modprobe.conf - there's little intelligence in the edits it makes. I am not sure what package it is (I never bothered to find out) but in the 8.60 PSP there is _something_ that munges modprobe.conf and combines 2 lines into one - in my case thereby breaking the line that configured the lpfc driver - leaving my freshly booted hosts (16 of them) without a working FC driver. Caveat emptor.... Don _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
