Re: Use of Veritas to create raw partitions?

Juan R. Guzman wrote: > > why use veritas at all for the raw disks? I'm using veritas and only > use it for the filesystems that require it. I think having informix > access the raw devices going thru veritas then solaris just is another > layer which (I guess) slows it down. > > Does anybody agree (or disagree) with me? Juan: We use Veritas in conjunction with Qualix First Watch software to help manage our disk groups. This gives us a flexible way of managing system up time and failover. In your shop, do you manage your raw devices as "disk groups"? As for adding another layer, I am sure not sure if there is an impact. Steve Romankiw Executive Risk Inc.