A5000 - more details
Klorese, Roger B.A.
rogerk@veritas.com
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:11:02 -0800
> We are looking to use an A5000 in a High
> Availability configuration (Asymetric).
> We have a Sparc 1000, a 1000E, and a Sparc20.
> The Veritas sales rep said I can have all three
> hosts in the loop. He did not know if I can
> program Volume Manager to handle all 3.
> I also wonder if SDS can handle 3 hosts/diskset.
Unlike SDS, where you configure hostnames into the SDS diskset
configuration, in Volume Manager each diskgroup has no idea which hosts
are configured to import it -- it only knows which host has it CURRENTLY
imported. Therefore, it needs no changes to fail groups among more than
two hosts.