Steve,

We do have a performance problem whenever we do a store/restore.  You
currently can only use one channel for communicating with the HPe3000.
This does create a bottleneck.  We have a work around using the ARM
server utilities to set the 12h in HighPerformance whenever we do a
restore and then reset it to SingleController when the restore has
completed.
We currently have 200-220 users who access this system and are
constantly access the drives.  We haven't had a big problem with
response issues for day to day functions by end users.
I've heard rumors that HP will eventually allow us to use both
controllers thus creating 2 paths for the data to flow through.

Steve Belkacem wrote:

> Apologies if I misled here. I am basically looking at
> both options Mirroring and 12H.
>
> Mirroring is the system we currently have, and does
> not seem to work correctly.
>
> The 12H raid option is the sytem which we are
> currently looking towards and I need to find out if it
> is a good solution, or if the horror stores if slow
> performace and the ARM utility are an urban myth.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
> --- Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
> Question,  why use mirroring on an 12h disc array?
> > When we set up a new
> > system here we had a 12h fully loaded configured in.
> >  Within the first 2
> > months we had 2 drives fail.  The system slowed down
> > (considerable)
> > while it rebuilt the bad drive but the system never
> > went down.
> >
> > Steve Belkacem wrote:
> >
> > > Hi people,
> > >
> > > 1. We currently use mirroring on out production
> > > machines. The feeling is that it is not a very
> > good
> > > system due to every time a primary disc has failed
> > ,
> > > the switchover to the secondary drive has not
> > happened
> > > and therefore the software is a waste of time.
> > >
> > > I am , in a very open minded way, presuming that
> > this
> > > is due to the mirroring was setup incorrectly at
> > the
> > > time . Would this be a correct assuption ?
> > >
> > > Would any users of the system please give me their
> > > opinion on this.
> > >
> > > 2. 12H Autoraid.
> > > Again I'd like to hear other peoples thoughts on
> > this.
> > > >From being in a position where I was happy to
> > move to
> > > this, I keep hearing horror stories (not direct)
> > which
> > > is unsettling to say the least.
> > >
> > > 3. Any other solution for the resilance ?
> > >
> > > Many Thanks in Advance
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> >
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