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Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5?

2008-04-28 18:49:23
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5?
From: Hadrian Baron <Hadrian.Baron AT vegas DOT com>
To: "'Justin Piszcz'" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>, Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:36:25 -0700
I too see people shying away from Emulex.  I think we will be moving forward 
with only Qlogic as well.

Not sure why other than it seems most operating systems like them, as well as 
our SAN gear only uses Qlogic.  It's nice to standardize.

- Hadrian

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5?



On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT 
> com>
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone here use Emulex cards and RHEL5?  It seems to have persistent
>> binding on by default?
>
>
> The official recommendations are that persistent binding be turned on for
> tape drives.  This comes from both Symantec and SNIA.  The only exception
> that I'm aware of is Solaris 10.  This is certainly true of SSO environment
> and I think I recall that you're using SSO.
>
> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/256261.htm
>
> In any case, persistent binding should never make things worse - it may not
> be required, but it shouldn't hurt to have it on.
>
> Around here, we've made a decision to not use Emulex HBAs in any
> Linux/Solaris environment and to also purchase only Qlogic HBAs on all
> Windows systems going forward.  It's just easier...
>
> --
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
>
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Not using SSO here but agree with the QLogic comment.
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