I concur.  We have attempted both and have found the Disk Suite is the better 
of the two. We have an older E 3000 running Sol 8 and Veritas 4.5 FP3.  We have 
Dell storage arrays attached and configured.
 
Samuel J. Coco  FAM

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Cornely, David [mailto:David_Cornely AT intuit DOT com] 
        Sent: Tue 1/20/2004 3:39 PM 
        To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
        Cc: 
        Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Disk Suite vs. Veritas vol. mgr
        
        
        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
        -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