The solaris volume manager administration guide provides instructions on using solaris volume manager to manage disk storage, including creating, modifying, and using raid0 concatenation and stripe volumes, raid1 mirror volumes, raid5 volumes, and soft partitions. The servers im using are hp proliant ml115 very good value. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Supported raid controllers this download supports intel raid controllers using sas software stack rms3cc080. Creating a raid1 volume solaris volume manager administration.
Software raid 10 in solaris 11, multipath, and a few. Hardware raids are more smb friendly than software raids. Raid1 and raid0 volume requirements and guidelines oracle. It came with 2 disks but only one disk is being used at present. Software raid is used exclusively in large systems mainframes, solaris risc, itanium, san systems found in enterprise computing.
This section describes how to reenable a hardware raid volume after replacing the cpu memory. In my attached file, there is demonstration by image. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. In solaris 9, a whole raid 0 contains 2 disk must be configure, then, raid 1 mirroring slice by slice inside. For a long time, ive been thinking about switching to raid 10 on a few servers. Software raid in solaris 10 ars technica openforum. I have also tested this method on solaris 8 and the process.
I have found some info on how to mirror the 250gb drives but i havent been able to find very detailed on how to setup the raid 5. Software raid when storage drives are connected directly to the computer or server without a raid controller, raid configuration is managed by utility software in the operating system, which is referred to as a. I chose to download the oracle vm virtualbox template, which is preconfigured and installed with solaris 10 1, which is the last update release of solaris 10, you could equally install from the iso. The solaris volume manager software lets you manage large numbers of disks. Planning to use solaris 11 on the t2000 10 on the netra, and i want to use it to learn about setting up zones and everything else i can about 11 my background is more linuxxbsd. Hi all, how do i configure software raid 0, 1,5 levels in sun sparc solaris 8. This would give me 2gb of cache from the controller 1gb per 3 raid 1 groupings and then use zfs to create the striping groups. The two components of the analytics feature are statsstore and analytics webui. We have just received a sun ultra 40 box that has 6 drives 2x250gb and 4x500gb i m trying to setup a software raid 5 on the 500gb drives with one spare and also mirror the 250gb drives. To start with here is what i laid out my filesystem to be when i initially installed solaris 10. When you are working with raid 1 volumes mirrors and raid 0 volumes singleslice concatenations, consider the following guidelines.
With regards mohan this email and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain confidential and. After that lets attach volume d11 is a submirror of the mirrored volume d10. Checking lsi raid status from the solaris operating system provided that the raid manager installed already in the server platforms using solaris 10u4 or higher will produce similar to the following output when configured under lsi hardware raid management. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties and click.
How to choose the configuration of the system disk for solaris 10 sparc. Disk mirroring using solaris disk manager raid 1 volumes. Raid1 and raid0 volume requirements and guidelines. Zfs software raid part iii this time i wanted to test softare raid10 vs. Software raid is one of the greatest feature in linux to protect the data from disk failure. Raid can be designed to provide increased data reliability or. Hi all, how do i configure software raid0, 1,5 levels in sun sparc solaris 8. Mar 06, 2018 software raid is used exclusively in large systems mainframes, solaris risc, itanium, san systems found in enterprise computing. Which one is recommended for file server and database server. Software raid considerations solaris volume manager. We need to setup software raid before the company that supports the fiber nms, will support it. We are running the console remotely, so to run smc on our workstation we have to run.
Oct 19, 20 step 6 the sun netra t5220 platform is ready for solaris 10 environment patch and bams installation. Read overview of replacing and enabling components in raid 1 and raid 5 volumes and background information for raid 1 volumes. Oracle solaris 10 in the oracle cloud infrastructure. Use the solaris volume manager gui or the metattach command to attach a submirror. Explination about raid levels in solaris 10 describing raid and solaris volume manager software the solaris volume manager software can be run from the command line or a graphical user interface gui tool to simplify system administration tasks on storage devices. A raid volume in this state cannot be used on oracle solaris. It is used to improve disk io performance and reliability of your server or workstation.
Im currently using one drive for the system and a raid5 array software for the remaining three disks. Chapter 10 raid 1 mirror volumes tasks solaris volume. Sep 04, 2011 checking lsi raid status from the solaris operating system provided that the raid manager installed already in the server platforms using solaris 10u4 or higher will produce similar to the following output when configured under lsi hardware raid management. Os supported solaris 10 u9, solaris 10 u10, solaris 11, and solaris 11u1 x86 and sparc download documentation. After format and label the disk, still not able to detect using vxdiskadm. The custom jumpstart installation method and live upgrade support a subset of the features that are available in the solaris volume manager software. On a side note, if youre using software raid its about a million times easier to setup a zfs pool, if you have solaris 10 1106 or later installed. Currently, the solaris operating system is shipped with a plugin for the mpt driver. Smbs using nas devices for backup and restore purposes will find many softwareraid based options. Creating full system backups of your oracle solaris systems have never been more crucial. The grubbased installation program of the solaris 10 106 software and subsequent releases no longer automatically creates an x86 boot partition. Beginning with the solaris 10 106 release, the grand unified bootloader grub has replaced the device configuration assistant dca for boot processes and configurations in x86 based systems. I make mirroring all data partitions it normally working. By default, solaris volume manager software implements a roundrobin read policy, which balances i.
Step 6 the sun netra t5220 platform is ready for solaris 10 environment patch and bams installation. This document describes how to setup a software raid 1 on a solaris 10 machine. I try make software raid on x86 server with solaris 10. I used x4100 server with dualported 4gb qlogic hba directly connected to emc clariion cx340 array both links, each link connected to different storage processor. Just to note up front i used identical maxtor 80gb drives for this raid setup. Limitations exist with certain device drivers in solaris 10 os 65 dvdromcdrom drives on headless systems 66 6 solaris 10 release notes january 2005 10 61 61. Jul 02, 20 software raid is one of the greatest feature in linux to protect the data from disk failure. But the real question is whether you should use a hardware raid solution or a software raid solution. Jul 07, 2009 a redundant array of inexpensive disks raid allows high levels of storage reliability. This download supports intel raid controllers using sas software stack rms3cc080, rms3cc040, rms3hc080, rs3yc, rs3lc, rs3sc008, rs3mc044, rs3dc080, rs3dc040, rs3wc080, rcs25zb040, rcs25zb040lx. Such solutions usually come with additional hardware e. A redundant array of inexpensive disks raid allows high levels of storage reliability.
So it looks like hardware raid 10 is the winner for windows setup providing you can replace the card in event of failure, and software raid 10 is a viable option for linux etc. The utility is built on a common library that enables the insertion of plugin modules for different drivers. Software mirroring and raid 5 are used to increase the availability of a storage subsystem. The raidctl command is for specific raid controllers, see.
Plan to use software raid veritas volume mgr on c1t2d0 disk. Next step is to actually create the raid using these two disks. Zfs is scalable, and includes extensive protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copyonwrite clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, raid z, native nfsv4 acls, and. Use one of the following methods to replace a slice in a mirror. Solved using both hardware and software raid together. We have lvm also in linux to configure mirrored volumes but software raid recovery is much easier in disk failures compare to linux lvm. As i am currently fiddling around with oracle solaris and the related technologies, i wanted to see how the zfs file system compares to a hardware raid controller.
If you can afford it i would recomend using identically sized drives. Smbs using nas devices for backup and restore purposes will find many software raid based options. Mirroring is writing data to two or more hard drive disks hdds at the same time if one disk fails, the mirror image preserves the data from the failed disk. Also please notice that doing raid10 completely in software means that host has to write twice as much data to the array as when doing raid10 on the array. The dependency on a software driver is due to the design of raidctl. The solaris management console smc comes with the solaris 9 distribution, and allows you to configure your software raid, among other things. Software raid on top of hardware raid unix and linux forums. Unless you know for certain that zfs cant work for you, you should be using zfs for any solaris 10 or later system. As you already know the software raid in solaris is made at the partition level so for example, partition 1 from first disk is mirrored or stripe with partition 1 on the second disk. With storage innovations such as zfs and solaris volume manager svm, you can tailor your storage for the best possible io performance and system availability using striping, mirroring, specific disk placement, etc. Check status of hardware raid connected to lsi and adaptec.
When you are working with raid1 volumes mirrors and raid0 volumes singleslice concatenations, consider the following guidelines. Zfs is scalable, and includes extensive protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copyonwrite clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, raidz, native nfsv4 acls, and. To continue the rest of the installation, refer to cisco media gateway controller software release 9. This guide explains how to set up software raid1 on an already running ubuntu 10. Would the software array with zfs come anywhere close to a hw raid 10 on the t2000. We dont have a solaris support contract other than the hardware warranty. Jun, 2016 software raid is used exclusively in large systems mainframes, solaris risc, itanium, san systems found in enterprise computing. The solaris volume manager administration guide provides instructions on using solaris volume manager to manage disk storage, including creating, modifying, and using raid 0 concatenation and stripe volumes, raid 1 mirror volumes, raid 5 volumes, and soft partitions. Man page for raidctl opensolaris section 1m the unix and linux forums if all your disks are just normal scsi, fcal or ide attached disks in the system or in a chassis that is a jbod just a bunch of disks then you need to look at solaris volume manager, take a look at.
Synology diskstation ds, buffalo terastation, are examples. The grub2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails no matter which one. We have a new solaris 10 server sun fire v240, that we needed for a fiber equipment nms. This has become much less necessary with more intelligent storage solutions that implement hardware mirroring and raid 5. A raid can be deployed using both software and hardware. Creating a raid 1 volume from the root file system. The zfs file system allows you to configure different raid levels such as raid 0, 1, 10, 5, 6. I have seen some of the environments are configured with software raid and lvm volume groups are built using raid devices. Solaris 10 raidctl raid 1 vol inactive sun microsystems hardware. Zfs is a combined proprietary file system and logical volume manager. Cisco billing and measurements server users guide, release 3. Use one of the following commands to create a hardware raid volume, depending on the hardware.
If the volume is set up as a raw device for database management software or some other application. The mirrored then striped array is also known as raid 10. Computing products software telecommunications microelectronics other products. Since these controllers dont do jbod my plan was to break the drives into 2 pairs, 6 on each controller and create the raid 1 pairs on the hardware raid controllers.