EMC and Tru64 best practices

From: Jonathan Burelbach (jburelba_at_phoenix.cit.nih.gov)
Date: 11/05/04

  • Next message: McCracken, Denise: "1200 won't boot on 5.1a CD?" 
    Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:44:24 -0500
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    We are migrating some of our Tru64 hosts from a somewhat problematic
    EVA5000 system and outgrown HSG80s to an EMC Symmetrix DMX2000. Since
    this is new technology to me (and the only person on our staff who has
    any experience with EMC is leaving) I'd like to get peoples opinions
    of EMC and Tru64 and any best practices people would recommend. Is it
    better to present 50 8Gig hypers or 1 meta? If presenting 50 hypers
    should you use LSM to stripe them or create one or 2 large ADVFS domains
    from all these LUNs? We have typically been creating large RAID5 LUNs
    on the HSGs or EVA and setting that up as 1 or 2 domains with several
    filesets for ease of administration. We're running 5.1B on systems
    ranging from old 1000As to GS140s, DS20s, GS160s and ES47s and most of
    the larger systems run several Oracle DBs. If anyone has advice I'd
    sure appreciate it (including what EMC training to take)

    Thanks.

    Jon 

    -- 
=========+=========+=========+=========+=========+=========+=========+
Jonathan Burelbach                               jburelba@mail.nih.gov
Unix Systems Administrator                  jburelba@topaz.cit.nih.gov
NIH/CIT/DCSS/SOSB;12 South Dr.;Bldg 12B/2N207;Bethesda  (301) 496-7372
  • Next message: McCracken, Denise: "1200 won't boot on 5.1a CD?"