Re: Disksuite vs. Veritas Volume Manager

I've setup customers using both and the only advantage Veritas has is if you purchase the option to auto extend "Veritas File Systems VFS). This is a big cost and provides no performance increase.

Disksuite comes with Solaris and Veritas doesn't. I would suggest that you make Disksuite your standard and offer Veritas as an add on. Veritas is fast becoming the standard where as Disksuite is not.

David Knollhoff

In article <39EEE29E.6215_at_yahoo.com>,
  connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Ervine & Henry Fox wrote:
> >
> > Solaris 2.6
> > Oracle 8.1.6
> >
> > Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of using DiskSuite vs. Veritas
 Volume
> > Manager for setting up filesystems for an Oracle database?
> >
> > We are working with a third party application vendor who has
 basically
> > written a "middleware" software as an interface between the client
 software
> > (also theirs) and the Oracle database. The middleware software and
 Oracle
> > sit on the same server. The database will be written to every hour
> > (inserts), no updates (this would skew data), and deletes during
 maintenance
> > at night. This is of course in the perfect plan. The supported
 databases
> > will run anywhere 15GB to 800GB with growth expected every year.
 The number
> > of users will also vary and will be random as reports are needed to
 run.
> >
> > I know that Veritas is more robust and I like it better than
 DiskSuite.
> > However, not all of our customers can purchase Veritas. Is there a
 "line
> > that shouldn't be crossed" between the two? I would hate to set up
 a site
> > on DiskSuite and then find out they should have used Veritas to
 begin with?
> > At the same time, I would like to be able to tell a customer if
 they can get
> > by with using DiskSuite?
> >
> > If there is documentation that explains the differences between the
 two, I'd
> > appreciate that info as well. Thanks for any and all responses.
> >
> > Fox
>
> Last time I used ODS it was limited to using the normal partition maps
> ie 8 per disk, which was one reason we opted for veritas. A
 interesting
> hybrid I've seen at sites is ODS for the "key" file systems (root, var
> etc ), and veritas for the rest. In this way, if your system gets
> itself into a major twist, the main file systems are still in stock
> standard file system format and can be booted without the need of
 either
> ODS or veritas.
>
> HTH
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