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

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 00:15, Robert Rose wrote:
> At 01:14 AM 13/03/2002 -0600, you wrote:

I have no idea who "you" is.  Damned useless line, if you ask me (which
you didn't).  
> > > > 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?
> 
> Not much at all really.  It's one of my current complaints with Sun (I'm 
> hammering them with it at every opportunity) that the're losing business to 
> Compaq/Dell/IBM/etc in the low-end server market because of it.  As a 
> result, they're losing market share to NT (perception that Intel servers 
> are best running NT), and they don't seem to realise it.
> 
> The Wintel market has been able to BOOT from hardware raid for what? 10 
> years or so.  Sun had an excuse while they were pure S-bus (won't fit) but 
> have absolutely NO excuse now that they're (almost) pure PCI.  Problem now 
> is that Solaris sysadmins are so used to having to make do with Disksuite 
> or struggling with Veritas, there is considerable inertia to overcome 
> before they will even contemplate hardware raid, let alone accept it and 
> recommend it to the suits.

If you get through to intelligence over there, do let us know.  :-)

> > > You can do software raid on any disks pretty much, using Solstice
> > > Disksuite under Solaris.
> 
> And it "inhales deeply" compared to hardware raid.

Are you talking about Disksuite in particular, or software RAID in
general?  
	Greg
-- 
Portland, Oregon, USA.