User:River/ms6 vxvm

i am testing Veritas Storage Foundation on ms6 as an alternative to ZFS. i will install 5.0MP3RP2 and use filebench to test various configurations:

• straight mirror
• raid5, various stripe widths

after benchmarking Vx i will recreate the pool with ZFS and run the same benchmarks to compare performance.

if benchmarking produces reasonable results, i will test VxFS's File Change Log feature for replication between image servers.

Installing VX

1. cd /root/sf_50mp3_x86
2. ./installer

add patches:

127336 02 < 03 --- 138 VM 5.0_MP3RP2_x86: Rolling Patch 02 for VM 5.0MP3Sun5.10_x86
127337 02 < 03 --- 138 VRTSvxfs 5.0MP3RP2_x86: Maintenance Patch for File System 5.0-Sun5
127362 01 < 03 --- 138 VRTSddlpr 5.0MP3RP2_x86: Rolling Patch 02 for VRTSddlpr 5.0 MP3
139355 -- < 01 --- 346 VRTSvmman 5.0MP3RP1: Rolling Patch 01 for Volume Manager 5.0MP3_x8
139738 -- < 01 --- 346 VRTSdcli 5.0MP3RP1_x86: Rolling Patch 01 for for VRTSdcli 5.0MP3
139740 -- < 01 --- 346 VRTSvmpro 5.0MP3RP1_x86: Rolling Patch 01 for VRTSvmpro 5.0
139746 -- < 02 --- 138 VRTSobc33_x86 5.0MP3RP2: Maintenance Patch for VEA Server
139745 -- < 02 --- 138 VRTSob_x86 5.0MP3RP2: Maintenance Patch for VEA Server
139747 -- < 01 --- 346 VRTSaa._x86 5.0MP3RP1: Maintenance Patch for VRTSaa
139748 -- < 01 --- 346 VRTSccg._x86 5.0MP3RP1: Maintenance Patch for VRTSccg
140658 -- < 01 --- 137 VRTSdsa 5.0MP3RP2_x86: Maintenance Patch for VRTSdsa 5.0
140662 -- < 01 --- 138 VRTSobgui_x86 5.0MP3RP2: Maintenance Patch for VEA GUI
141280 -- < 01 --- 138 VRTSmapro 5.0MP3RP2_x86: Rolling Patch for Solaris 10