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Determining the Number of Logical Volumes
You can configure a volume into seven partitions (also known as slices) using the
format
(1M) utility. Alternatively, you can configure virtually a large number of
partitions (also known as subdisks) using VERITAS Volume Manager. Therefore,
arrays are best configured as one large volume.
These applications benefit from the following logical volume or LUN configurations:
■
Two LUNs per array
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OLTP
■
ISP
■
ERP
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NFS file system, version 2
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Attribute-intensive NFS, version 3
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One LUN per array
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Data-intensive NFS file system, version 3
■
DSS
■
DW
■
HPC
Note –
If you are creating new volumes or changing the volume configuration, you
must first manually rewrite the label of the previous volume using the
autoconfigure
option of the
format
(1M) UNIX host command. For more
information on this procedure, refer to the Sun StorEdge T3+ Array Administrator’s
Manual.
Caution –
Removing and reconfiguring the volume will destroy all data previously
stored there.
Determining the RAID Level
In general, RAID 5 is efficiently managed by the RAID controller hardware. This
efficiency is apparent when compared to RAID 5 software solutions such as
VERITAS Volume Manager.
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