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I work for company that recently acquired a company that has a Sun Storage 7410 that has a really old firmware and many problems. I have been able to get my hands on the most recent firmwares 2011.1.5.0 and 2011.1.3.0. We have a current CSI with Oracle it just does not have firmware access. My problem is that I need firmware update 2010.Q3.2.1 for my 7410 hardware in order for the server to be upgraded to this latest firmware. Back when Sun was still Sun, this would not have been a problem, but they were absorbed into the shambling horror of a company that is Oracle. Good old Oracle now requires an expensive support contract in order to access firmware updates for Sun hardware that long predates Oracle's acquisition of Sun. What I need is for some sympathetic fellow IT person with access to CSI with firmware access to download this old firmware pack and to provide it to me. Here is the link to the pack that I need: https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download/p11887647_120_Generic.zip?aru=14164363&patch_file=p11887647_120_Generic.zip I am willing to trade the newer version for the older one if someone needs it. Any help I can get with this would be greatly appreciated!

Hey all, looking for any possible advice here. I've raised a case with Cutter who are looking into it. We’ve got a start menu share on our S7410 that has student and staff mapped/shared (via DFS) start menus on it. Everything has been fine for ages, but yesterday at just after 10:00 CIFS, Network and CPU started getting absolutely hammered, and CIFS is now showing a hurricane on the BUI. The access is only to the staff start menu and is coming from staff PCs. It drops off overnight when no one is logged on then starts up again in the morning. The type of operation going on is NtTransact and isn’t hitting the disks. Network traffic is an even split of in and out. The only thing that changed around the time this started was that I added a new shortcut for software to the staff start menu. It’s just a shortcut to a html file but it did have a slightly unusual character in it (an e with an accent). Any idea if this could be the problem? Nothing else has changed to my knowledge. I’ve now removed that shortcut completely but so far it hasn’t made a difference. It might not change until the DFS caching runs out (30 mins). http://www.hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk/avatar/s7410_startmenu_highuse.png Any suggestions? Chris

Hi folks, First post, but I've been keeping an eye on the forums as a couple of people I've been working with are on here. I've recently bought a Sun 7410 Unified Storage System with a 22TB J4400 Array and three flash accelerators. I know there has been quite a bit of discussion on the Sun 7000 series, but it's been mainly aimed at the lower end 7110 and 7210 models, so if anyone has any questions about the 7410 then I'll do my best to answer them, although be aware I haven't fully deployed it yet in production so I won't have all the answers! (Thanks to Andy at Cutter Project and Phil at Sun for their help, very good people to work with!) On to my related question... For those of you who have a SAN and Windows users with roaming userspaces/profiles, how have you got them saving directly to the SAN? At present we have three Windows servers with shares for userspaces and profiles, these locations are set in the user account in Active Directory and the 'My Documents' folder is redirected with Group Policy. I'd like to have these users (1600+ of them) writing directly to the SAN to remove the Windows server overhead and point of failure. However, I'm starting to realise some issues like the ability to batch-create user shares and set permissions on them (easily done with our Windows user account tool), granular control of file and folder permissions, and quota management at the level provided my Microsoft's File Server Resource Manager. If you're using a SAN with lots of Windows users, how do you create and manage the shares required on a large scale? I realise this isn't a problem with the Sun box (it fully supports AD and CIFS, and does no less than NetApp or EMC kit to my knowledge), but more a 'what's the best practice' question. Many thanks, Chris