[SunHELP] Upgrade Help

[Dale Ghent]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Craig T. Abram wrote:

| Ok..
| I've just been handed a 4500 and 3000 with a total of 9 arrays (D1000
| and A3000) with the following:
|
| Veritas   2.5
| RM6       06.22
| Solstice  Disksuite  4.2
| Solaris 6
|
| Of course I need to upgrade to 8. What's the best route ? Do I really
| need Solstice and Veritas ?

the best way to upgrade would be to wipe and do a fresh installation of
Solaris 8.

the Veritas (I assume Volume Manager) you refer to is rather old. For
Solaris 8, you would need to upgrade to vxvm 3.0.x, and I believe that
would require the purchase of a new license for each server.

Depending on your requirements, you can forgo using vxvm and use DiskSuite
4.2.1, which is included with Solaris 8.

/dale