[Veritas-vx] Check partitions and plexes/subdisks match

2010-10-23 Thread Jon Price
Hi, I want to ensure that system disks are really ok so want to do a number of checks. eg. How would I check that the partitions and the plexes/subdisks match? Thanks, Jon ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.a

Re: [Veritas-vx] live upgrade

2010-10-18 Thread Jon Price
Hi, Does it look like this is the error message? ... *"jerry is running SunOS version 5.Solaris* Supported versions are: 5.9, 5.10" And the warnings about vxfs are just that... warnings.? I guess the SunOS version shouldn't be "5.Solaris", right? Maybe check uname -a as well as /etc/r

Re: [Veritas-vx] Linux: "lvm" versus Veritas VxVM?

2010-08-28 Thread Jon Price
Thanks. Very helpful! On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > Jon Stanley wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > > > > > >> * in vxvm lets you do everything from raid-0 to raid-6. lvm doesn't do > >> mirror. > >> > > > > I'll make a point of contention

[Veritas-vx] Linux: "lvm" versus Veritas VxVM?

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Price
Hi, How does Linux "lvm" compare with Veritas VxVM for Linux? Or pointers to existing comparisons or helpful docs about this? Thanks, Jon ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/verit

[Veritas-vx] Veritas binaries and different Sun architectures: sun4u and sun4v

2010-08-05 Thread Jon Price
Hi, Are the Veritas binaries installed on our v890 (sun4u architecture, Solaris 10) the same as the Veritas binaries on a T2000 (sun4v architecture, Solaris 10)? We use Veritas VxVM, VxFS, and Cluster. *Background* We want to use our current v890's system disks to create a "duplicate" environment

[Veritas-vx] EMC PowerPath versus Veritas DMP?

2009-10-26 Thread Jon Price
Hi, We have a Sun server running Solaris 9 connected to an EMC storage array via SAN. What are the advantages/disadvantages of using EMC PowerPath *instead of*Veritas' dmp software? Thanks, Jon ___ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.e

[Veritas-vx] Storage Foundation limitations in Windows version?

2009-01-29 Thread Jon Price
Hi, We've used Veritas a lot on Solaris, but trying to find out some about Veritas for Windows. Looks like it might be very limited. No Veritas filesystem for Windows. Curious what the rationale is. Does Veritas Volume Manager for Windows support space-optimized snapshots? If not, are there othe

Re: [Veritas-vx] Q About 122058-11

2008-10-16 Thread Jon Price
Do you get log messages? On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Paul Liong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Our system is a Sun Solairs 10 Box with VM 5.0 MP1. Recently, we have > applied the latest VM patch 122058-11 into the system. However, when > we try to reboot the box after the patch

Re: [Veritas-vx] VxVM disk group commands take too long

2008-10-07 Thread Jon Price
Maybe looking at the Veritas logs while the disk group commands run would give you a hint... In /var/adm/vx/ Jon On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Kirubakaran Kaliannan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > What is the storage vendor you are using and is it configured as A/P or > A/PF ? > > T

Re: [Veritas-vx] 5.0 -- Do I really need all these pkgs?

2008-08-25 Thread Jon Price
(Sorry, wanted to send this to the list too..) Hi, Is MP3 available for Solaris? I'm also upgrading from Veritas 4.x to 5.x and on Solaris 10. Veritas Support told me there is no Veritas 5.0MP3 for Solaris available yet. Do you know whether that's true? (is MP3 only available for Linux for exa

[Veritas-vx] Snapshots and reliability etc.

2007-11-18 Thread Jon Price
Hi, We've been using Veritas Volume Manager, filesystem, and Cluster for a while. And we have the FlashSnap license so that we can use the "snapshot" features. But we haven't used "snapshots" yet. I think it would be helpful for us to do so. But I'm a little concerned about using what is to us a

[Veritas-vx] vxdg split

2007-11-18 Thread Jon Price
Hi, [[ First, I'm going to send a few questions in now. A couple will be similar in some ways, but I figure it's the best to keep them separate...]] We've been using Veritas Volume Manager, filesystem, and Cluster for a while. And we have the FlashSnap license so that we can use the "vxdg spli

[Veritas-vx] VCS fire drill, testing Oracle Data Guard Stby, ..

2007-07-15 Thread Jon Price
Hi, I'd like to be able to bring up our Oracle Standby Server in production mode for testing while real production is still running on the main production systems. The VCS Fire Drill feature seems to do just that but it looks like it does not support Oracle Data Guard. I'm wondering whether t