SDS/SVM+UFS vs Foundation Suite on Solaris 8/9 Systems

From: Caparroso, Nelson T. (AAS) (Nelson.T.Caparroso@sbcdo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 16:26:49 EDT

• Next message: David Lowenstein: "Best method to synchronize files"
• Previous message: Mark Hargrave: "Summary: NFS Mounts Intermittently Slow on Solaris 2.7"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

Been itching to ask this, so here it goes:

I've been questioning the practice of still having Foundation Suite (Veritas
Volume Manager + VxFS) on small to mid-sized server implementations under
Solaris 8/9 environments - for the very reason that SDS/SVM already is a
robust product and with soft partitions - is highly configurable. Also,
since UFS is vastly improved with logging and improved directIO performance
why invest on VxFS? And since most of these boxen are 3500's and V880's
which have the PHOTON license for the internal FC loop - VxVM license should
come free and we could still stick with UFS and realize co$t savings..

Any thoughts on these?

Thanks and I will summarize.
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers

• Next message: David Lowenstein: "Best method to synchronize files"
• Previous message: Mark Hargrave: "Summary: NFS Mounts Intermittently Slow on Solaris 2.7"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:24:31 EDT