SUMMARY - Logical Volume Manager

From: Shirley Gruber (shirley@netserver.stanford.edu)
Date: Wed May 18 1994 - 23:34:44 CDT


My question was:

>Can anyone point me at software that will perform the function of a
>"logical volume manager" for a Sun system running SunOS 4.1.3.
>We would like to be able to treat a group of disks as a single unit.

I received 29 responses; most were very favorable comments about Sun's
Online DiskSuite product. I also received the following pointers:

* RAID systems

* You might try speaking with Veritas. They offer a volume management
product among others. I've been testing with it here, and have been quite
pleased with the results.
        Also Sun is developing a product as well, but it isn't due out for a
few more months. In fact they are using the Veritas product on one of their
own products - the SPARC Storage Array.

        Veritas - 408-727-1222

* If you are interested in something to just be an independent NFS
server maybe you should check out the toaster by Network
Appliance Corp (415)428-5100. It works best if you have FDDI.

* DEFINITELY the new Sun RAID software will do this.

Thanks very much to the following people:

bmaggio@lci.com (Bill Maggio)
Gregory Bond <gnb@melba.bby.com.au>
hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
mwmeyer@ingres.com
Peter.Samuel@nms.otc.com.au (Peter Samuel)
mealmei@kn.PacBell.COM (Mark E. Almeida)
karrer@ks.id.ethz.ch
Adam Fox <adamfox@descartes.super.org>
uucp@ucs.att.com
ucsdeva.ucs.att.com!rkh ("Bob Halloran")
Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com>
shandelm@jpmorgan.com (Joel Shandelman)
edk@mach10.utica1.kaman.com (Edward F Killian)
reilly@horta.shr.dec.com (Stephen Reilly)
Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)
bobk@nynexst.com (Robert Kryger)
Ken Nawyn <kn@Tudor.Com>
"Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc@usb.ve>
dave@cybersys.com
mike@trdlnk.com (Michael Sullivan)
Nate Itkin <Nate-Itkin@ptdcs2.intel.com>
"Dave Twinam" <dct@evolving.com>
stern@sunrise.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
cfougere@diva.fr (Cathy)
slee.ATC@madge.com (Steve Lee Info:SJ)
Dave Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
walfish@jpmorgan.com (Joshua Walfish)
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
eddy@telecomm.tadiran.co.il (Edward Resnick - Sys Adm Team (1723))

        ...Shirley



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