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by **Jason Benedic** » Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:41:01

I have a new SunFire V880 and as a novice was wondering how do I
configure the RAID set before installing Solaris8.

Jason Benedicic, CCSA
Systems Admininstrator.

by **Philip Bro** » Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:06:08

>...
>Solaris 8 does not come standard with any sort of volume management
>software which you need create software RAID sets after Solaris is
>installed.

Sure it does. DiskSuite.

Quote:>The two common volume managers available on SUN are Solstice Disk Suite
>(free, on one of the companion disks, IIRC)

actually, it's on "CD 2 of 2", last time I checked. Or maybe sun has
moved it elsewhere since they released the updated version with soft
partitions.

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by **Akop Pogosia** » Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:39:04

> I have a new SunFire V880 and as a novice was wondering how do I
> configure the RAID set before installing Solaris8.

If you're talking about V880 internal disks, AFAIK, there are no
internal hardware RAID controller for them. In the Sun world, what you
traditionally do, is install the OS on one disk, then install the RAID
software of your choice (either SDS which is free and comes with
Solaris or a more advanced Veritas LVD) and then setup software RAID
on any of the disks, including the boot disks.

Sun also sells external disk arrays with RAID controllers but those
are normally configured -after- the OS has been installed on the
host.

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by **Akop Pogosia** » Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:45:05

>> I have a new SunFire V880 and as a novice was wondering how do I
>> configure the RAID set before installing Solaris8.
> If you're talking about V880 internal disks, AFAIK, there are no
> internal hardware RAID controller for them. In the Sun world, what you
> traditionally do, is install the OS on one disk, then install the RAID
> software of your choice (either SDS which is free and comes with
> Solaris or a more advanced Veritas LVD) and then setup software RAID

s/LVD/LVM/