Over the course of the next week, the same thing happened after a day or so (or on the monday following the weekend) the drobo would disappear from the system and I had to hard reboot. When the reboot finished, the Drobo reappeared on the desktop and the Dashboard showed its presence. No dice the server hung presumably because it was trying to unmount the drobo that was no longer there. Thought the issue was odd, so I tried to soft restart the server. tried to navigate the Drobo’s file structure and was greeted by the spinning beachball of doom. I was able to VNC into the server and discovered the Drobo had disappeared from the system Drobo Dashboard said “no drobos detected” even though the Drobo icon was on the desktop. Within a few days of the server deployment, a user called and said she had problems connecting to the server. Satisfied, I decided to deploy the new solution and turned on AFP and SMB file sharing services to roughly 20 users, mostly on Macs. During this time the Drobo was rock solid and I was impressed with its performance. It took many, many hours migrating their data from the old RAID to the DroboPro (had to copy the data to a FireWire 800 drive first, then to the Drobo). So we put the new hardware in and decided to connect the DroboPro via iSCSI to the Xserve. We recently deployed a new storage setup consisting of the DroboPro and an Intel Xserve (6 CPU Nehalem, 6GB RAM) for file sharing.
I’m hoping someone here has an insight or has experienced the same issue could chime in.
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