Original question:
I've recently been given the task to spec out an E3000 with dual
37Gb SSA's. We want to mirror one SSA to the other. Unfortunately
my boss wants an implementation plan PDQ, and I'm not sure where to
start. Is the DiskSuite stuff that comes on the 2.6 server CD set
adequately suitable? Does it need additional licensing? What do
people recommend?
Any pointers to web sites etc where I can find things much appreciated!
Answers from:
Christopher M. Conway
Matthew Stier
Rick Reineman
Andrew Moffat
Garry Robbins
Karl E. Vogel
Mark P. Beckman
fred byrd
Michael Salehi
Cyril GODON
Seth Rothenberg
As always, a great set of answers.
Both Solstice (Online) DiskSuite (4.0 comes with Solaris 2.5.1 and 4.1
comes with Solaris 2.6 server) and veritas Volume Manager (comes with
the SSA) can do the job. Opinions are divided between what is better,
with most people tending to recommend Veritas.
The Veritas that comes with the SSA is slightly reduced in functionality -
it can not stripe non-SSA disks, although it can mirror them.
There was some confusion (maybe just in my mind) that DiskSuite was
Veritas rebadged. Apparently it's not - they are totally different pieces of
software.
There is an SSA managers mailing list, with an archive at
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/pub/mail-lists/ssa-managers
Apparently, Sun will be recommending Veritas in the near future as well....
Thanks to everyone who responded!
rgds
Stephen
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:12:02 CDT