Solstice Disksuite for Solaris 9 ???

[gfunk123]

Hi There

Im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. i have a Solaris 9 box with 2 physical disks that i have sliced up. There are a couple of slices on each disk that i would like to amalgamate together to create one slice (metadisk) I would like to use Solstice Disksuite as i have a bit of experience with the gui etc, but after much searching around on the CD's I cant find it. Apparantly Solaris 9 has replaces SDS with "Solaris Volume Manager" .. My question is, is SDS\metatool available for Solaris 9 and where would i download the package from (SUNWmd). I do think its good that Sun have bundled an app for volume management but due to my skill set and the fact that i need to get this done quickly, id much rather stick with what i know, solstice disksuite


any help on this would be greatly appreciated

 

[elemica]

Hi

As far as I am aware Solaris Volume Manager incorporates metatools. If you start up SMC gui you should be able to do whatever metatools was capable of doing.

 

[gfunk123]

sorry, what is the SMC gui how do i start it? is it a similar gui to solstice DS

 

[daFranze]

Solaris Volume Manager is just another new name for Solstice DiskSuite

I do not like the GUI, I prefere the ComandLineInterface; somebody wrote a FAQ in this forum or read some SUn Documentation

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-4519

there are good examples!

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[gfunk123]

thanks for that dafranze, but i know exactly where i am with the gui, does anybody know how to launch the gui, or where its located ? or even what its called

cheers

 

[daFranze]

this will tell you more

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-4519/6manojtvf?a=view

but believe me, you will love the CLI...

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[gfunk123]

Hi again

Can anyone give me some pointers on what i need to do for the follwing issue

I have 2 physical disks with slice 4 on disk1 called /data and slice 4 on disk 2 called /data1. I have been asked to create one big slice called /data that incorporates both slices. I have backed up the contents of both slices so that i can play with them as i please, i cannot rebuild the box because there a complex software installs running on other slices of the first disk

does anybody know the CLI commands to do this or the relevant chapter in the above posted manual?. I am used to the term Metadisk, but i cannot find it in the manual, has it changed ?

any help on this would be greatly appreciated

 

[daFranze]

having two metadevices you can setup a mirror or a stripe/concatenation; a stripe has no "single point of failure" security, if one disk/metadevice fails all data is lost!

assuming disk1 is c0t2d0 and disk2 is c0t0d0...
(the names d1, d10, d11 may be in use! -> check 'metstat -p' output)

# Stripe of devices:
metainit d11 1 2 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s4 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4

# Two way mirror:
metainit d10 1 1 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s4
metainit d11 1 1 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4
metainit d1 -m d10
metattach d1 d11


Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[daFranze]

I forgot:

newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d1

please use logging mount option in your /etc/vfstab File

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[gfunk123]

sorry daFranze i forgot to mention, I do not want any raid on this at all, I need the full disk space. So all i want to do is create a single metadisk accross those 2 slices utilizing all available space. Also as i mentioned before it is an individual slice from each disk that i must metadisk togeter ie c0t0d0s4 and c0t0d1s4, not the entire disks. I need to keep all other slices intact as they contain critical programs that would be very difficult for me to restore

 

[daFranze]

if s4 on disk1 and disk2 are the same size (blocks and cylinders) you can setup a stripe

> # Stripe of devices:
> metainit d11 1 2 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s4 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4

or if they aren't you need a concat

# Concatenation of devices:
netainit d11 2 1 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s4 1 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4

I just wanted to mention above: you do not have any single point of failure security setting up a concated or a striped volume; if you do not need it, it's your busines, you are the admin! ;-)



Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years