[Veritas-bu] Disk Suite vs. Veritas vol. mgr

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I think there is a Volume Manager mailing list, you might try there as well
but I'll tell you what I think.
>From what I've seen and done they both have their places.  My suggestion is
to use DiskSuite to mirror your internal root disks and then use Volume
Manager to configure your array disks.  The reasons:
 
-Root disk recoverability is easier with Disksuite than Veritas as vxvm
encapsulation and vxunroot are not flexible if you stray at all from
expected norms
-Rootdg can be made with leftover slices from the root disks, no need to eat
up and entire disk - check this link to learn how:
http://unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/rootdg.html
<http://unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/rootdg.html> 
-Veritas has disk groups which offer flexibility that disksuite just doesn't
have (importing, deporting, etc...)
 
Hope this helps.
 
-Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Schaefer, 
Harry
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:06
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disk Suite vs. Veritas vol. mgr



We are building out an array of ATA disks direct attached to a Sun server
running Solaris 8 for some disk based backups. Anyone know of any pros &
cons of using Solaris disk suite vs. Veritas volume manager? Currently I
have a lot of experience with disk suite. If vol. mgr. is that much better,
I will figure out how to use that...

Thanks, 
Harry S. 
Atlanta 


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<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I 
think there is a Volume Manager mailing list, you might try there as well but 
I'll tell you what I think.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>From 
what I've seen and done they both have their places.&nbsp; My suggestion is to 
use DiskSuite to mirror your internal root disks and then use Volume Manager to 
configure your array disks.&nbsp; The reasons:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-Root 
disk recoverability is easier with Disksuite than Veritas as vxvm encapsulation 
and vxunroot are not flexible if you stray at all from expected 
norms</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>-Rootdg can be made with leftover slices from the root disks, no need to 
eat up and entire disk - check this link to learn how:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A 
href="http://unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/rootdg.html";>http://unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/rootdg.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>-Veritas has disk groups which offer flexibility that disksuite just 
doesn't have (importing, deporting, etc...)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hope 
this helps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=845163420-20012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
size=2>-Dave</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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  <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma 
  size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> 
  veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
  [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]<B>On Behalf Of 
</B>Schaefer, 
  Harry<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:06<BR><B>To:</B> 
  veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Veritas-bu] Disk 
Suite 
  vs. Veritas vol. mgr<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
  <P><FONT size=2>We are building out an array of ATA disks direct attached to 
a 
  Sun server running Solaris 8 for some disk based backups. Anyone know of any 
  pros &amp; cons of using Solaris disk suite vs. Veritas volume manager? 
  Currently I have a lot of experience with disk suite. If vol. mgr. is that 
  much better, I will figure out how to use that...</FONT></P>
  <P><FONT size=2>Thanks,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Harry S.</FONT> <BR><FONT 
  size=2>Atlanta</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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