On 08/16/2013 07:51 PM, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> I am wondering if any one knows of a way to manage Xyratex disk shelves from CentOS (in particular CentOS 4).
>
> More details:
> Some years ago I installed a NAS unit from Exanet which consists of 2 rebadged IBM x3650 head nodes and a couple of Xyratex disk shelves with a total of 96 TB of raw disk, connected by fibre channel. The operating system is based on CentOS 4.4, but is modified, and runs a proprietary file system. It has pretty good performance and I'm happy with it.
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> You may know that the company went bust some years ago, so I have been running this system unsupported. I am loath to give up the disk space though.
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> The two things I worry about are, the fibre channel connection and the external disk trays. Unfortunately, what I know about fibre channel is very little. They are emulex HBAs, and I guess there used to software called lputil, but this is no longer available at the Emulex site. It has been replaced by something called HBAnywhere, but I have not succeeded in building that on CentOS 4. Uprading the OS is out of the question I would think while maintaining the file system capability.
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> And the other question is how to manage the LUNs on the Xyratex's.
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> I'd be grateful for any info anyone has on either.
>
> Tony Schreiner
Have you tried to locate ex employees of that Company? Maybe you could
hire some developer from that Company to help you out?
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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe
StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
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