I have some questions regarding SCSI on Sun Solaris Sparc machines. My company is planning on buying a low end server from sun (SunFire 250v). My boss, wants me to do some research as in what type's of configurations we can do on this machine. He's is very anal about certain things, and wants only certain types of configurations. So here's my questions.

What is the best option for raid under Solaris Sparc? From my research i've havn't found any pci scsi cards with raid, for solaris sparc. Am I missing something? If there is one, where can I find it. Or if there's another solution Im missing what is it.

I heard that Solaris 9 has software raid, but as I said before my boss is anal, an thinks that this is the worse thing ever. And he continues on saying that not having raid would be better than having software raid. Is this true?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Sorry for my English!

Nathan.

In my opinion software raid is good. I have not lost any data yet.

I think that this: http://vendors.asbis.com/datasheets/..._datasheet.pdf will work with solaris/sparc.

In the pdf, under os support it says Solaris 7 (x86). I see nothing about sparc. Have you actually used it on sparc?

Thanks for the replies.

Nathan.

OK. Sorry, I didn't see that. You do mean the SunFire v250 which is located here: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v250/ right? Just searching around in google I found this: http://www.sparcproductdirectory.com/raid.html which maybe will work, I'll let you do some of the work.

Yes, I meant the v250. I've looked at the page, but since my company actually wants to sell these things, modified, my boss would like to have these things (scsi card/raid) officially support sparc. Not just a work-around.

Does anyone have any experience with software raid, with sparc? Or know of a card that officially supports sparc systems?

Thanks,

Nathan

hmm. i'm not too familiar with the V250... i thought that you were referring to the Enterprise 250 at first.

disk suite comes with any standard installation of Solaris and will allow you to implement a software raid on your box.. alternatively you can use veritas volume manager (these are the main 2 software bundles that support raid in Solaris)

I'm not too sure whether the V250 comes with a hardware raid controller, usually hardware raid controllers are reserved for disk arrays...

Hardware raid is easier to implement then software in that the controller handles the raid hot spares and failures for you while software raid requires you to manually configure via cml.

hth