[OmniOS-discuss] iscsi timeouts

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Dan McDonald wrote:

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> On Jan 21, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > We've seen problems like this when we have a SATA drive in a SAS expander that is going out to lunch. Are there any drives showing errors in iostat -En? or any drive timeout messages in the ring buffer?
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> Generally speaking --> you use a SATA drive in a SAS expander at
> your own risk.  I used to be at Nexenta, and they would not
> support customers who deployed SATA drives on SAS expanders.
> These days, the price delta between SAS and SATA (for enterprise)
> is small enough to be worth it for the headaches you avoid.

we are not using sata NOR a sas expander ...

we have a bunch of sas drives directly attached to sas controller
ports each ... (the ssd drives are sata but they are directly
attached to individual sas ports too)

we have several system setup in a similar manner, and the problem
only manifests on this one ... but it is also the most busy of the
bunch.

cheers
tobi
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> Dan
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