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initializing disk over a terabyte on Solaris 9

initializing disk over a terabyte on Solaris 9
30 Mar 2007 01:52:28 -0500
I am running Solaris 9 and vxvm 4.1. We are purchasing a new array and i would
like to create 2 terabyte disks and initialize them in vxvm. I was told by
veritas support that  i must have solaris 10 to do this. Is that true? I
would prefer to get Solaris 9 9/04 or the latest version of Storage Foundation
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Re: initializing disk over a terabyte on Solaris 9
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:25:02 +100
EFI disks are only supported on Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 and 5.0 on 
Solaris 10

Justin wrote:
> I am running Solaris 9 and vxvm 4.1. We are purchasing a new array and i
would
> like to create 2 terabyte disks and initialize them in vxvm. I was told by
> veritas support that  i must have solaris 10 to do this. Is that true? I
> would prefer to get Solaris 9 9/04 or the latest version of Storage
Foundation
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Re: initializing disk over a terabyte on Solaris 9
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:15:17 +100
While we're on that point. (big disks)

There is no real advantage to it.

Remember that any hardware can fail (I know hardware vendors tell you 
that they have n+1 and another bunch of sh.....

BUT, hardware does fail !!

So, if you lose the 1 disk, you lose 2TB of data !!! Good luck restoring

Me wrote:
> EFI disks are only supported on Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 and 5.0 on 
> Solaris 10
> 
> Justin wrote:
> 
>> I am running Solaris 9 and vxvm 4.1. We are purchasing a new array and

>> i would
>> like to create 2 terabyte disks and initialize them in vxvm. I was 
>> told by
>> veritas support that  i must have solaris 10 to do this. Is that true?
I
>> would prefer to get Solaris 9 9/04 or the latest version of Storage 
>> Foundation
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