We are on Epicor 9.05.702 Progress 64 bit.
We had an issue last week and I wanted to share my anecdote about using a Fusion IO solid state card.
Our Epicor server had reboot for what appears to be no reason and, I believe as a result of this, we ended up with a corrupt record in our database.
At the time, it was unclear if the corruption came from a hard drive issue. Our database was on the Fusion IO card so to rule it out, we moved the database to another drive (4 x SAS drives, 10K I believe, in a RAID10).
We repaired the database with zero dumped blocked, luckily, and got Epicor back up and running.
The rest of the day went well but this morning, Epicor was running extremely slow. Appservers kept spinning up to address user requests because other appservers were working. After a couple of attempts to restart Epicor, I decided to move the database back to the Fusion IO drive. (I had run a bunch of diagnostics over the weekend but hadn’t move the DB back yet because I was waiting for Dell to review the logs).
After moving the database back, everything is running much more stable and back to normal.
I had always wondered what benefit the Fusion IO card was providing because, at the end of the day, Epicor is still slow but after seeing how things could be running on traditional drives, I can see that the benefit is tremendous, at least for us.
While we do not see any performance gains from the end users’ perspective, the stability that we recognize, or at least now recognize, is tremendous.
Just wanted to share in case others are considering a Fusion IO card.
Joe Rojas | Director of Information Technology | Mats Inc
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addr: 179 Campanelli Pkwy | Stoughton | MA | 02072-3734
jrojas@... | www.matsinc.com
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We had an issue last week and I wanted to share my anecdote about using a Fusion IO solid state card.
Our Epicor server had reboot for what appears to be no reason and, I believe as a result of this, we ended up with a corrupt record in our database.
At the time, it was unclear if the corruption came from a hard drive issue. Our database was on the Fusion IO card so to rule it out, we moved the database to another drive (4 x SAS drives, 10K I believe, in a RAID10).
We repaired the database with zero dumped blocked, luckily, and got Epicor back up and running.
The rest of the day went well but this morning, Epicor was running extremely slow. Appservers kept spinning up to address user requests because other appservers were working. After a couple of attempts to restart Epicor, I decided to move the database back to the Fusion IO drive. (I had run a bunch of diagnostics over the weekend but hadn’t move the DB back yet because I was waiting for Dell to review the logs).
After moving the database back, everything is running much more stable and back to normal.
I had always wondered what benefit the Fusion IO card was providing because, at the end of the day, Epicor is still slow but after seeing how things could be running on traditional drives, I can see that the benefit is tremendous, at least for us.
While we do not see any performance gains from the end users’ perspective, the stability that we recognize, or at least now recognize, is tremendous.
Just wanted to share in case others are considering a Fusion IO card.
Joe Rojas | Director of Information Technology | Mats Inc
dir: 781-573-0291 | cell: 781-408-9278 | fax: 781-232-5191
addr: 179 Campanelli Pkwy | Stoughton | MA | 02072-3734
jrojas@... | www.matsinc.com
Ask us about our clean, green and beautiful matting and flooring
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