6140 online volume and virtual disk expansion
Hi,
I have a 6140 configured. I have created some volumes that is being used as oracle raw devoces on solaris 10. I have two doubts to confirm
1. Can I expand diskspace to the virtual disk online witout any dataloss.
2. can I expand volume with the added space online without any dataloss. (the volume is presented to the solaris 10 os and it is being used as a raw device by oracle (ASM)
Thanks and regards
Ushas Symon
Your configuration is dependent on the application's needs.
Personally, on my 14 shelves of 6140 storage, I do not want to suffer the penalty of RAID 1 mirroring (cuts the available storage size in half), as today controllers are very reliable, as are disk drives, so I use RAID 5 which offers stripping among the disks, offering more available storage and excellent performance. In three years, we haven't lost a single bit, and we are capable of ~400K TPS.
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