Re: RAID-5 and database servers

2010-03-11 Thread Preston Hagar
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:26 AM, J. Epperson wrote: > On Thu, March 11, 2010 11:17, Dan Pritts wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:54:44PM -0600, John G. Heim wrote: >>> Has anyone configured a database server with RAID-5? Is it really a bad >>> idea >> >> http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/RAID >> > >

Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-10 Thread Preston Hagar
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Tuesday 09 February 2010, William Warren wrote: >> On 2/9/2010 5:17 PM, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote: >> > Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive >> > use of Dell drives. It is common practice in enterpri

Re: Nagios Permissions: PERC3/Di and afacli script

2009-12-30 Thread Preston Hagar
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Steve Jenkins wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time getting an afacli monitoring script to work > properly via nrpe in Nagios. > > The server is a 2960 running CentOS 5.4. Via nrpe, I am successfully > able to run the check_afacli script from here: > > http://www.t

Re: RAID Perc 5 monitoring

2009-12-28 Thread Preston Hagar
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Rick Bragg wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought a used PowerEdge 1900 with a perc 5 controller. I am > running Ubuntu LTS 8.04 on it, and I'm wondering if there are any > software tools that I can use to monitor and manage the array? I have > it set up as RAID 10

Re: SAS5/E with MD1000 for JBOD

2009-12-18 Thread Preston Hagar
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Philip Tait wrote: > On 12/17/2009 11:39 AM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: >> Philip Tait wrote: >>> We want to attach an MD1000 to a PE2900 in a non -RAID configuration. >>> >>> The Dell sales people are very convinced that we have to have a PERC6/E >>> to co

Re: breaking a mirror to upgrade disk

2009-10-29 Thread Preston Hagar
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Andrey Dmitriev wrote: > Has anyone broken a mirror and booted w/o mirror? > Then replaced the detached disk with a bigger disk. > Then repartitioned and copied original disk to a bigger disk , booted off > bigger disk (maybe swapped disks to do that?), and create