Hi.
While I agree with Shachar about the advantages of software RAID, this
is not true. All modern RAID controllers maintain a replica of their
configuration on all disks. This allows easy RAID controller migration
between *similar* RAID controllers.
If you ship the disks to another server
will have them RescueCD boot and I will
install remotely via VPN tunnel or SSH tunnel - which I don't like and not
sure if it is possible.
On Saturday 28 February 2009 11:10:24 ezaton wrote:
Hi.
While I agree with Shachar about the advantages of software RAID, this
is not true. All modern
- Solaris SunCluster 3.1 uses some special SCSI-3 command for quorum
keep-alive. Connecting two nodes in Installation Mode (Default, right
after install), everything works well. Connecting it to an FC storage
(namely IBM FastT200) single port, you can define the quorum, but it's
always offline. It
NOt long ago, one of our clients, running Windows 2000 Server, in a very
complicated testing environment (testing our product), installed the
product, and since then, his server was unable to boot. During the debug
procedure, he was asked to send us his registry, and so he did. He
exported his
I see as raised, and add some more.
Few years ago, while (and still) administrating the Israeli Radio Amature
Commette (IARC) server, which is a Linux machine, and back then it was old
RH5.1 (very old at that time), I played with a spare disk (small one) I
had, and a backup script, using tar.
It
The main question you have to ask here is wether you're up to the price
(either in money or performance) of a 24/7 full uptime machine. On most
cases, assuming only swap resides on a 2nd disk, I would be able to handle
a machine crash, and reboot without that swap (as would natrually happen,
