Patrick, same here – we have seen all kinds of behavior in terms of Fault Tolerance functioning and not functioning. As long as we are still on 10.1.1, I try to have an eye on the SpectroServer’s and ArchMgr’s memory allocation which seems to be some kind of indication that something is about to go wrong. A proactive reboot of the primary SS helps keep the environment healthy.
Freundliche Grüße Christian Fieres Mainova AG Sachgebiet Netz- und Infrastruktur (M3-ST4) Teamleiter Service Operation Center Solmsstraße 38 60623 Frankfurt am Main Telefon 069 213 23617 Mobil 0170 5601563 Telefax 069 213 9623617 E-Mail [email protected] Internet http://www.mainova.de Von: Murtey, Patrick [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Oktober 2017 16:24 An: Fieres, Christian <[email protected]>; spectrum <[email protected]> Betreff: RE: Hardware for SPECTRUM 10.2+ on RHEL 7 HI Christian, I don’t know about hardware being an issue, but we have had a similar problem with 10.1.1 getting a segmentation violation and DB crashing. And to make matters worse when this occurs the Fault-Tolerant server does not pick up on this and it never fails over, leaving our Spectrum down until someone catches it manually and has to reload the db and restart the primary. I have an open case on this now. Patrick From: Fieres, Christian [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:47 PM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Hardware for SPECTRUM 10.2+ on RHEL 7 Hi all, I am challenged to migrate SPECTRUM 10.1.1 running on an Oracle T4-1 in a Solaris 10 LDOM to a VMware VM with RHEL 7 on an Intel platform. I am sure there will be no problems with the OS or the virtualization whatsoever. Nevertheless, I am being a little cautious in terms of hardware issues – while my current Solaris box was never a problem for CA and, with SPECTRUM 9.x, even preferred over a T2 or T3 driven machine (see https://support.ca.com/us/knowledge-base-articles.TEC593037.html), it seems that there are memory allocation problems (which, frankly, do not affect any of my other LDOMs, only the primary SpectroSERVER) that lead to CA refusing full support for performance problems we are facing with SPECTRUM 10.1.1. In particular, we have to restart our environment from time to time with weird side effects like corrupted SSDb (Stopping SS doesn’t work due to missing memory), thus the need to restore a backup which of course lacks the buffered events that were about to be written to DDMDb as soon as the stalled ArchMgr would work again… etc. pp. We intend to buy Cisco UCM machines as a base for ESXi 6 – more precisely, UCM C240-M4 boxes (see https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c240-m4-rack-server/index.html). We already use those for our CUCM environment. I assume we are less likely to be faced with an issue in the Intel world compared to Sparc, nevertheless I appreciate any input from the community in regards to possible problems somebody might have already faced with this particular hardware platform. Freundliche Grüße Christian Fieres Mainova AG Sachgebiet Netz- und Infrastruktur (M3-ST4) Teamleiter Service Operation Center Solmsstraße 38 60623 Frankfurt am Main Telefon 069 213 23617 Mobil 0170 5601563 Telefax 069 213 9623617 E-Mail [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Internet http://www.mainova.de Mainova Aktiengesellschaft - Solmsstraße 38 - 60486 Frankfurt am Main · Postadresse: Mainova AG, 60623 Frankfurt am Main · Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Bürgermeister Uwe Becker Vorstand: Dr. Constantin H. Alsheimer (Vorsitzender), Norbert Breidenbach, Lothar Herbst Sitz der Aktiengesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main - Amtsgericht Frankfurt HRB 7173 - USt-IdNr. DE 114184034 Mainova steht für besten Service, faire Verträge und top Preise für Ihre Energie - mit Auszeichnung! Mehr Infos unter: http://www.mainova.de/auszeichnung * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Mainova Aktiengesellschaft - Solmsstraße 38 - 60486 Frankfurt am Main · Postadresse: Mainova AG, 60623 Frankfurt am Main · Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Bürgermeister Uwe Becker Vorstand: Dr. Constantin H. Alsheimer (Vorsitzender), Norbert Breidenbach, Lothar Herbst Sitz der Aktiengesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main - Amtsgericht Frankfurt HRB 7173 - USt-IdNr. DE 114184034 Mainova steht für besten Service, faire Verträge und top Preise für Ihre Energie - mit Auszeichnung! Mehr Infos unter: http://www.mainova.de/auszeichnung --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
