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[s-x86] Re: Anyone used DiskSuite 4.2
Phillip Bruce wrote:
|>
|> Peter,
|>
|> First be sure to use word wrapping. Your output looks terrible whatever
|> your using for email. Sorry just a comment there.
Sorry about that!
|>
|> Your Disksuite on a Clarion Box in which is heavily used
|> by SGI. It works ok. What F/C card are you using in your x86?
|> Or is this being done on a sparc systems?
|>
LP8000 Emulex.
|> I strongly advised that if you have .4 TB or 400 GB filesystem to break
|> that down. I used to work at Hitachi Data
|> system testing their storage arrays and found that building
|> large filesystems are a pain in the kazoo. Now the Clarion Disk
|> I've only used on SGI system. Their controllers are radically
|> different that anything I've worked on.
|>
I understand there could be serious problems, but I need a very large NFS, the min
would be like .4 tera. If I could build smaller ones and have the tests see it as
one large NFS i would.
|> I personally disklike Disksuite. It has far too many limitations. I like
|> Veritas especially VXFS it is much faster
|> than UFS altogether. The only problem is that Veritas is not
|> ready for x86 platform but they built it for NCR systems which
|> kinda of bothers me cause it is nothing more than intel hardware. Their using
|> Solaris. That is the other kicker.
I believe NCR is out to differentiate their x86 Solaris offering, they probably own that Veritas
code.
|>
|> I just thought maybe you have a total of .4 TB filesystems
|> and not a single one.
|>
No, I have ~ 1 tera.
|> What in specific do you need help with. GUI ( Metatool) sucks
|> anyway. Stay with command line.
|>
If you do not mind, how about giving me examples per my second reply ?
|> Now how can I help you further. If the http://docs.sun.com
|> should have all the man pages and references. The key there or
|> even if you have the hard manual docs is to read. The answers are there just
|> have to DIG for it.
|>
|> Let me know and I'll help you out. Sorry for the long
|> love letter there.
I want to create this monster, how do I do it. I have 100 disks on the CLARiiON, I want to make .4, .2, .2, .2 tera NFS
and perhalps could I later wipe out the FS and concatnate say like the .2 devices into .6 tera FS? Is that type of
flexibility posssible?
Thanks
- Peter Mwaniki
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