Installing MSA30 on 11.i

[Dan Maschmeier_1]

I have a rp5470 running 11.i.
I want to install a MSA30 and 10 73GB 15K drives. I want to stripe and mirror the drives. The reseller is telling me I have to use Distributed Mirroring and there are limitations on the stripe size (must be 2 MB minimum.
Is this true and is it a problem?
Can't I just stripe and mirror using vxassist command?
Thanks

[Duncan Edmonstone]

I think you're at cross purposes here - you're both right...

The reseller is talking about LVM - you are talking about Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) - If you purchase the full version of VxVM you will be able to do as you describe, but it is NOT included in the base OS or any of the other default operating environments. It can be purchased seperately though - ask for part no "B9116AA 2AH" - you need 1 per CPU.

HTH

Duncan

[Luk Vandenbussche · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can stripe with the basic lvm

lvcreate -D y -s y

Or striping and mirroring with Mirror/UX

lvcreate -D y -s y -m 1

[Dan Maschmeier_1]

Thanks for the replies.

I have MirrorDisk/UX so the lvcreate seems the most likely solution for me. Not sure if I have the extended VX software. Thanks.