shopping advice for disk array and host

[ponetguy2]

I have an ultra 2 and i'm thinking of buying a sun storedge multipack to attach to it. I don't have much experience w/ disk arrays and i would like to know what i should look for.

ultra 2:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U2/U2.html

storedge 711 multipack:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/805-3954-10.pdf

 

[dandan123]

What are you planning on using this for ?

 

[ponetguy2]

i need to learn raid 5. i'm not that familiar with disksuit and i would like to practice on my own machine. i don't have the convenience to practice at work.

 

[Annihilannic]

You could create 3 partitions on one disk and do RAID5 across them, if it's just to practice? The performance would be terrible, but the principles are the same.

Annihilannic.

 

[dandan123]

Any way to get hold of VxVM to practise ?

I'm also practising on a Ultra10 at home.

 

[coffeysm]

I think Veritas offeres 30 day evaluation copies of their software. But once that 30 days is up it will stop working until you enter a license, so I would not use it on your root drives or anything.