LVM out?

[Rajshree Shinde]

Is it true that the LVM is going out after
11i?

[Nick Wickens]

Apparently HP are planning to move to Veritas Volume manager which is the industry standard now (apparently ?).

With current release of HP-UX 11i LVM and VxVM are available side by side although VxVM can't be used for root volumes under PA_RISC.

However at 11i release 1.5 for Itanium based systems the boot disk MUST be VxVM (although data disks can still be LVM or VxVM).

So I would guess that LVM will slowly be phased out along with PA_RISC.

[harry d brown jr]

That would totally suck! I have sun servers without veri-TOSS because the license for veri-TOSS is more expensive than the server and application software!

The same goes for veri-TOSS's backup software.

I didn't know I needed a Tiffany's line of credit to purchase veri-TOSS's software.


live free or die
harry

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Yes 11.20 will only support Vxvm as the root disk .

Manoj Srivastava

[Jeff Schussele]

Harry,

As far as I know the cost of Veritas will be included in the OS. It's a base or "lite" version, but will handle RAID (mirroring & striping), have dynamic multi-pathing as well as a GUI.

Jeff

[Nick Wickens]

Base VxVM is included with standard 11i but if you get the Mission Critical release (ie inclusive of Service Guard etc) you should get the advanced VxVM options.

[Pete Randall]

According to the VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Migration Guide, the base version does not do mirroring, that requires an additional license (B9116AA).

FWIW,
Pete

[Jeff Schussele]

Pete,

Yes you're correct...you need to purchase Mirror UX separately to get mirroring if you buy the Base OE...OR...step up to Enterprise OE to get it along w/On-Line JFS, etc.

And Nick...isn't it silly that you don't get the Adv Veritas w/the Enterprise OE? Is it available as a separate purch? Would be rather wasteful if you had to go Mission_Critical & buy all the other prods (MC/SG, ECM, etc.) if you only wanted the Adv Veritas.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Pete Randall]

This may be outdated but my ordering guide says "The full VERITAS Volume Manager, which includes disk mirroring and Dynamic Multipathing is not included in any of the Operating Environments. It must be purchased separately by using HP product number B9116AA.

Sound like you can get it separately.

Pete

[Nick Wickens]

The advanced VxVM is listed as its own product ref so I guess you can probably buy it seperatly. When I enquired about this from our account manager she managed to confirm that we had all the licenced "bits" needed for Mission Critical but we had to pay about ??300 to uplift our "media" to this level.