Search the Community

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 everyone! I need some advice or feedback... We are a fast growing company that is outgrowing our storage needs, and are looking to upgrade. We are looking for a scalable storage solution that can: Grow with us and is easy to scale and maintain. Support different storage pools with different speeds and configurations to be tuned for our specific user needs (see below)... Designers: Work with large files such as psd, ia, and a little bit of video Video Editors: Work with everything from HD to 6k footage and need a lot of bandwidth for editing with streams from the storage server Business User: Work with standard business apps and files such as excel, pdf, keynote, ppt, etc... So the storage must be configured to all us to meet the needs of video, design, business storage, and dumb storage (archiving and backup). The system are looking real hard at is iXsystem for a TrueNAS unit. We posted a few questions about storage here, but I would like your opinion about the specs and if you think this solution is an excellent one. Have in mind that our main requirements are: easy to manage, easy and cheap to scale (grow as we grow). * TrueNAS Z35 3U (ZFS - NFS, CIFS, HTTP, FTP, iSCSI, AFP - Snapshots, Compression, Shadow Migration, Cloning, Remote Replication) - 16 x 3.5" Caching SAS Drive Bays - 256 RAM - TrueNAS Extreme-Performance Write Cache (SZR) - TrueNAS High-Performance Read Cache: 800GB SSD - TrueNAS 10 Gigabit Quad Port Controller - Zpool #1 - VM OS Storage - (5 x 400GB SSD) - 2 x 400GB vdevs in RAID10 + 1 x 400GB Hot Spare ~745GB Usable - Zpool #2 - Fast Storage (38 x 4TB SAS) - 18 vdevs (4TB Mirrors) in RAID10 + 2 x 4TB Hot Spares ~64.8TB Usable -Zpool #3 - Backup Repository (24 x 4TB SAS) - 4 x 16TB vdevs (5 x 4TB) in RAIDZ + 2 x 4TB Hot Spares ~58.4TB Usable Questions: This system is being quoted for around $90k. What do you think about the company, system, and specs? Fair Priced? How is ZFS file systems for a NAS/SAN and would it meet all our needs or is there a better option that you might know of? What concerns would you have? Can it scale well? Is there a much cheaper solution that we should look hard at? Thanks again and would love any feedback / suggestions (even willing to pay for consulting) Cheers!

Hi all. We're incredibly excited to announce our partnership with iXsystems, and as I'm sure the tone already sounds like a generic partner announcement - let me add emphasis incredibly excited Excited mainly for two reasons: Firstly - the TrueNAS and FreeNAS lines are really interesting storage solutions. Open Source driven and harnessing ZFS, a self-healing file system that prevents, detects and corrects data decay, bit rot and corruption. Secondly - the iXsystems team are an absolute joy to work with. We've never worked with a storage vendor so willing to set up POC, solution walkthroughs and pre-deployment testing (typically they hot test drives for over a month in-house to ensure 0% fail rate on deployment. More on ZFS: True Protection TrueNAS provides unrivalled data integrity protection by using the OpenZFS enterprise file system. OpenZFS is a next-generation file system in every regard from its self-healing bit rot mitigation to its flexible snapshotting and replication. True Scalability OpenZFS is a future-proof 128-bit “scale up” file system that is designed for decades of continuous use. TrueNAS grows from hundreds of GBs to 4PB per system and is designed to make the increase in capacity painless. True Flexibility TrueNAS offers you the flexibility of choice, providing CIFS/SMB, AFP, and NFS for file storage and iSCSI and Fibre Channel for block storage. Every common operating system, hypervisor, and application is supported. TrueNAS uses OpenZFS to provide unlimited point-in-time snapshots, allowing you to roll back and access data as it was. TrueNAS is a proven way to mitigate virtual machine corruption, user error, and ransomware attacks like CryptoLocker.# True Performance TrueNAS delivers a perfect balance of price and performance that puts many all-flash arrays to shame. It uses TrueCache™ to leverage RAM, flash storage and spinning disks for flash-like performance with spinning disk capacities and economics.# True Freedom Originally developed at Sun Microsystems, but now Open Source, OpenZFS is an enterprise-grade file system that iXsystems has delivered to more users than anyone. We pride ourselves on working closely with the OpenZFS community to help make OpenZFS the greatest file system ever written. Thus far we've deployed iXsystems into Education, Aviation and Security organisations. If you'd like to know more about what they can offer, click the link below Partner Announcement - iXsystems - Haptic Networks Thanks for reading Joe