topic Re: msa2000fc in Disk Enclosures

msa2000fc

moiauh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:59:38 GMT

hello friends,

could any one tell me more about msa2000fc.we are planing to buy 2000fc.i would like to know 1.whether it can support HP-UX
11i v1 (PA-RISC)
11i v2 (PA-RISC & Integrity)
11i v3 (PA-RISC & Integrity)

2.is it possible to use this storage as a shared storage in oracle rac?

in hp documents nothing specified regarding the os support of hpux and rac.

looking for a feed back.

cheers

raju

Re: msa2000fc

TTr — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:01:42 GMT

Officially HP-UX is not supported. So if you buy one and are able to present LUNs to HP-UX (assuming the array software/firmware allows you to) I would not recommend it because you would not be able to get support neither from HP nor from oracle. Since the 2000fc does not support HP-UX, there is no way RAC would be supported either. Take a look at

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12991_div/12991_div.html

and scroll down to OS support.

Based on

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1231639

the 2000 series is OEMed from Dot Hill.

Also the IBM DS3000 series appears to be the same array. Same line of products (SAS/iSCSI/FC) same number of enclosures and same drive module types. The DS3000 does not support HP-UX either.

Re: msa2000fc

TTr — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:27:48 GMT

This is interesting. The Dot Hill 2000 series array supports Solaris SPARC. Maybe HP-UX support will come soon.

Re: msa2000fc

moiauh — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:29:17 GMT

thank you all