Re: Sharing SSA disk space

From: Fred Yang (FYang@NSHS.EDU)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 10:04:01 EDT


Tim,

JFS can't support the concurrent access capability, GPFS is the product you
need, but it only support AIX/Linux. And IBM is developing a product Storage
Tank, which designed to support cross platform concurrent access, which
includes major Unix flavor/Linux and Windows.
Fred Yang
Sr. Unix Admin
perotSystems

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Muller [mailto:aix_sa_706@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:03 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Sharing SSA disk space

Thanks very much for the info.

Tim

--- Robert Miller <rmiller@SMUD.ORG> wrote:
> I believe our system here uses concurrent access,
> but requires that instead of JFS, you create raw
> logical volumes. This seems to require a large
> amount of foresight on the DBA's part, since every
> time you need space you have to create another LV on
> the shared disks (we're using SSA...)
>
> Not 100% sure but I think we may be using Parallel
> Server...
>
> --rm
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Muller [mailto:aix_sa_706@YAHOO.COM]
> > Sent: 14 May 2003 14:28
> > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Sharing SSA disk space
> >
> >
> > When an Oracle DBA speaks of 'clustering', is that
> > synonymous with HACMP?
> >
> > Can two AIX systems share JFS's on an SSA array,
> both
> > with write permission to said JFS's?

=====
Tim Muller
Hamilton Co. Dept. of Job & Family Services
Cincinnati, OH USA

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