A5200 And Volume manager

[Doug Hughes]

>
>I have a customer who would like to utilize a Sun A5200 with 22 disks
>for an Oracle Application.  The customer would like to make each 9GB
>drive it own volume, then mount each volume to the root partition.  The
>SA/DBA will handle striping from within Oracle.  They are not looking at
>utilizing any form of RAID.
>
>The A5200 will be dual attached to an E3501.  Two internal drives will
>be mirrored.
>

Hey, if each disk is its own volume, what's the point in using VxVM and
an A5200? Seriously, any JBOD would do in this configuration. They'd
get a lot more flexibility by striping them into volumes as needed using
VxVM. Then you could do things like dynamic growing of the volumes. 
Otherwise, I'd say they're just wasting money. (IMHO)

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Doug Hughes					Engineering Network Services
System/Net Admin  				Auburn University
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