[SunHELP] Need some info on A1000

[Dale Ghent]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Peter Stokes wrote:

| Hi Al
|
| We are thinking of purchasing a second user A1000, but cannot find any info
| about how to drive them, so here are some pretty simple (I hope) questions.
|
| 1) What software do I need to config the A1000 and is it freely available as
| part of Sol 8 or do I need a separately licensed/purchased product?

Sun RAID Manager is a free download from sun.com. That's all you need to
manage your A1000(s).


| 2) Can you use non Sun drives in it?

Sure.

| 3) Do all of the drives need to be exactly the same size or can you vary
| them i.e. have 2 x 36Gb , 8 x 18Gb etc.

I would not use different-sized drives within the same LUN or raid set.
Otherwise, it should work.

/dale