[rescue] Re: Hardware RAID on modern Sun equipment?

[Robert Novak]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 CARL.P.HIRSCH at sargentlundy.com wrote:

> I'm trying to get a sense of what Sun's offering these days. As far as
> hardware RAID goes, what's out there? Do the Netras do RAID in software on
> those IDE disks? How about the Ultras or the Enterprise series?

You can do software raid on any disks pretty much, using Solstice
Disksuite under Solaris.

For hardware RAID you're looking at an A1000 at the bottom of the line, or
something bigger (T3 array, or the really bigger stuff). There isn't
really any internal RAID on the Sun servers that I've been able to find.
Definitely nothing on the board like some of the PCs out there. It's all
going to be outside the box. 

You may want to look at third party solutions ranging from Netapp or
Raidzone depending on your budget, up to the big stuff that is probably
out of your budget (EMC, HDS, etc). 

> Strangely enough, I'm having trouble finding RAID 0/1/5 cards on Sun's
> site.

Not strange at all... I don't think they sell one anymore. Used to have
the SRC/P PCI RAID card, but it had problems and isn't really promoted
from what I've seen. 

--Rob
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