From: Jeff Germain (j.germain@xpedite.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 16:04:54 EDT
Sun Mgrs,
We have purchased an IBM ESS 800 (Shark) SAN [done deal; no comments there
:-)] and will be attaching multiple Sun systems to it, hopefully all Solaris
9.
We have purchased Sun X6767A HBA's for testing.
We are now looking at MultiPathing options. Looks like:
o) SSTM (MPxIO)
o) Veritas DMP
o) IBM SDD
And, Volume Mgmt:
o) Veritas VxVM
o) Sun Volume Mgr (aka DiskSuite++)
There's also a possibility that A) we'll *need* to attach Solaris 2.6
systems (hope not); and B) that we'll be clustering (probably VCS, less
likely SunCluster).
Q: Any thoughts on the features/performance/compatibility/management of the
MultiPathing software? All of them will be essentially be free to us, so
cost isn't an issue (however, the "free" part of VxDMP assumes we purchase
VxVM, which it seems like we're willing to do). I think in any case we'll
be dealing with *all* of Sun, IBM and Veritas, so reducing the number of
vendors, though desirable, probably won't happen.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Jeff
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