[Sunhelp] RAID and other Disk questions

[Magnus Abrante]

To run RAID 5? I would recommend you to do get a piece of hardware
that can take care of it, software RAID 5 is quite bad in terms of 
performance.

So software RAID 5 is mainly an option if you dont need very good 
performance.

Solaris is boundled with Solstice DiskSuite, which support RAID 5.

Its boundled with Solaris on the CD labeled "Easy Access", unless 
you have Sol 8, then you have it in a directory called EA on cd #2.

As for documention i'd recommend docs.sun.com(as usuall):

For Disksuite 4.2: 
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.260.1/@Ab2CollView?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

And Disksuite 4.2.1 (Solaris 8):
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.260.2/@Ab2CollView?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

Sun Educational Services has a very good Disksuite course btw.

As for SDS 4.2 there are a patch you might want as well -> 106627.

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */



> Thanks for the reply, yes I'm aware of iostat. I'm looking for an app 
> somewhat like sar (I need that much info if not more) but I would like 
> the ability to easily graph. Also, looking into RAID 5 on Solaris, is 
> there a FREE way to do this? If not what software do you recommend, 
> this would be on E250's and E450's. Thanks in advance.
> -Blake
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wmcdonald [mailto:wmcdonald at orctel.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:01 AM
> To: sunhelp
> Cc: wmcdonald
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] RAID and other Disk questions
> 
> 
> Are you aware of iostat? Should be exactly what you're after.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: blake r matheny <blake.r.matheny at mail.sprint.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 7:04 PM
> Subject: [Sunhelp] RAID and other Disk questions
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction as 
> far 
> > as a RAID 5 Solaris How-To or even some advice/words of wisdom on 
> > setting it up. I'm also looking for any tools (native to the OS, not 
> > third party) to help me diagnose disk problems, particularly seeing 
> how 
> > much I/O activity a particular disk has. Any help much appreciated. 
> > -Blake
> > 
> > 
> 
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