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ESXi reports "All Paths Down" for ReadyNAS hosted NFS share
Hiya - looking for some feedback from the community on an issue I'm seeing. Thanks in advance for any insights. Some background: We're using two ReadyNAS 3200's to host virtual machines via NFS. ...
Sorry I didn't see your posts... I haven't been around these forums in a long time.
@gavind:
For storage I've got 2x ReadyNAS 3200's, 1 NetApp FAS2220, and 1 NetApp FAS2520.
Personally I like the NetApps better. They have a ton of functionality even w/ basic licensing. You get tons of data on performance, usage, and other metrics without having to install hackjob 3rd party mods or other weird crap. There's much better support and detailed documentation. NetApp also treats their product like it's enterprise grade, so you won't get techs recommending you should reboot a production storage array in the middle of business hours. :wink:
To be fair, ReadyNAS does some things well, and they're cheaper... so it all depends on if you want a rock-solid platform, or if you need to save some $$$.
@cyrill:
No, status hasn't changed since my last post. The ReadyNAS 3200's are stable unless there's a RAID scrub running, and then they get flakey. It hasn't caused issues yet, ESXi seems to be able to cope with the I/O dropping in/out, and I haven't seen data loss yet. I'm not happy about the situation but there's nothing I can do as long as I need to keep the units running. For your case, I think you might have some other issue, as my problems were all related to connectivity loss while the unit was under high load. You might have problems with a bad NIC, cable, etc.
@gavind:
For storage I've got 2x ReadyNAS 3200's, 1 NetApp FAS2220, and 1 NetApp FAS2520.
Personally I like the NetApps better. They have a ton of functionality even w/ basic licensing. You get tons of data on performance, usage, and other metrics without having to install hackjob 3rd party mods or other weird crap. There's much better support and detailed documentation. NetApp also treats their product like it's enterprise grade, so you won't get techs recommending you should reboot a production storage array in the middle of business hours. :wink:
To be fair, ReadyNAS does some things well, and they're cheaper... so it all depends on if you want a rock-solid platform, or if you need to save some $$$.
@cyrill:
No, status hasn't changed since my last post. The ReadyNAS 3200's are stable unless there's a RAID scrub running, and then they get flakey. It hasn't caused issues yet, ESXi seems to be able to cope with the I/O dropping in/out, and I haven't seen data loss yet. I'm not happy about the situation but there's nothing I can do as long as I need to keep the units running. For your case, I think you might have some other issue, as my problems were all related to connectivity loss while the unit was under high load. You might have problems with a bad NIC, cable, etc.
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