SUMMARY: Disk Suite on Solaris 8 (intel)?

From: Alan Thew <Alan.Thew_at_liverpool.ac.uk>
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 09:38:00 EDT
I asked

On Wed, 9 May 2001 16:44 , Alan Thew <Alan.Thew@liverpool.ac.uk> said:

>Does anyone have good (or bad) experiences they are happy to share?
>

I got 3 reponses, all in favour. Thanks very much.

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From: Michael Miller

works fine for me.

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From: Daniel Lorenzini

I am using Disksuite on Solaris 8 intel boxes with good results.  The
machines are dual-CPU Compaq 1850R's and DL380's.  I am doing root and
swap mirroring, both 2-way and 3-way, and data disk mirroring with hot
spares.  These are all SCSI devices, including system drives.  I
believe there are issues with mirroring IDE drives, so I would not
recommend doing that.  I am using UFS logging, as opposed to ODS
logging with tran metadevices, also with good results.

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From: Timothy Lorenc

Works great! I have been using it since Solaris 7 when it was
only included in the Solaris Easy Access Server v2.0 additional
software... Granted, I have only used it then SCSI HDDs (my
personal opinion is that IDE sucks... I have had too many of
them die on me, probably at a rate of 8 bad IDE HDDs for every
SCSI HDD failure...)

It is a cheap solution for disk mirroring... but now I have
been replacing DiskSuite with hardware solutions... primarily
AMI MegaRAID... but I am evaluating other newer and better
controllers...
Received on Mon May 14 14:38:00 2001

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