Hi, I need to mirror the internal

[NavinB]

Hi,
I need to mirror the internal disks of Sun server using Solaris Disksuite while Veritas Volume Manager will be used for external disk array structure.Am I right in doing so or shall I use Volume Manager for both.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.....
Thanx....

 

[solmanus]

What people have done in the past was using DiskSuite to mirror the root disk and Veritas VM for everything else. There was a valid reason for this which I don't want to dwell into. Basically, when you use VxVM to encapsulate/mirror the root disk, the partitions on your root disk are moved around if you have partitions on slice 3 and 4. This can get messy. There was a good article from Sun that discussed on how to use VxVM to mirror the root disk correctly and avoid the problems. Unfortunately, I can't recall the name of the article. You may want to search Sunsolve and related sites.

 

[NavinB]

hi,
Thanx for the info....I searched on sunsolve site and found this article:
Multiple system reboots may result in missing VERITAS volumes with Solaris 2.6.
Is it this one which u were referring to...?

 

[FarahRegal]

there is a nice article about mirring in this Site
check it out.

http://www.samag.com/solaris/index.htm

F.regal