3rd time is the charm.<div><br></div><div><div class="im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div class="gmail_quote">I&#39;ve attached my sysstat from the other night when NFS/CIFS hung up... is this what you&#39;ve seen as well? </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">During that issue, FCP was also slow.. had some MPIO failovers happening on our AIX LPARs.  But, AIX handles that just fine and at least has an alternate path through the other filer.  NFS isn&#39;t so lucky.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I have a 3250+1TB PAM sitting on deck.. you&#39;d think that the 3240+512GB PAM would be sufficient for what we do.</div><div class="gmail_quote">While I do have SATA in use for VMWare, it&#39;s not heavy hitting VMs.. it&#39;s the dormant stuff, mostly.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">I&#39;m moving a lot of it, though, to 6xDS4243x600GB-15k shelves ASAP.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
I&#39;m drinking the PAM kool-aid too but do have some measurable results primarily on our PeopleSoft DB2 databases.</div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
I definitely wouldn&#39;t bet on SATA+PAM == FC/SAS performance.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Brian</div>