The resulting complexity led us to acquire expert advices from a specialist company to avoid further complications. Given the size of the cluster, each procedure like checking some data and reorganizing some data takes a long time (sometimes several days). After a comprehensive situation analysis, the expert company has advised use to reinforce the cluster with additional and new servers
As per Gaels post, it was the worst case, as there was no strategy and no in house experts.
I’m sure the words “your data” in the /e slogan, led a great deal of user to think you know what you’re doing.
Having out side experts just for disaster recovery and then returning to how things where done before… ???
Hope – and yes, hope is all I can express at this stage – /e will learn from all this in many ways.