Recommended Sun hardware SAN

From: Nigel P. Longbottom (not_at_all.valid)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:47:08 +0000

Has anyone had any experience with Sun hardware connected to a SAN?

I'm looking to connect approx 6 small Sun boxes (from V240R up to V880 /
V890 in size) so that they have two internal mirrored disk for the OS,
then pick up the rest of their disks from a SAN.

Can anyone recommended compatible FC cards that you have used and work
well. Also a SAN manufacture and model you have had experience with. I'm
looking around the 10TB range for six server.

What would your recommended LUN size be? Do you still have to slice the
disks up even if they are part of a SAN LUN? I'd also appreciate backup
strategy if you have one. The servers are likely to be running Solaris 9
with Oracle 9i.

This is all theoretical at this point so your experiences would be very
helpful.

Nigel.

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