Solstice DiskSuite 4.0
The Standard for High-Performance Unix Volume Management
Solstice(TM) DiskSuite(TM) software addresses customer needs for improved
I/O performance, high data availability, easier large system administration, and quick system recovery. DiskSuite satisfies all of these needs
while making the most of expensive and scarce disk resources. DiskSuite
is the standard for UNIX volume management in the industry today.
DiskSuite provides a robust set of volume management capabilities. Disk
striping and RAID-5 improve I/O performance. Disk mirroring, hot
spares, RAID-5, and shared device support ensure data availability. Large
file system support, file system expansion, and a "drag-and-drop" metadevice graphical user interface ease the burden of administration. A logging (journaling) UNIX file system (UFS) enables fast system reboots
and improved system performance.
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Data availability - Your business depends on data being available at all
times. Teamed with the capabilities of DiskSuite you can ensure the
highest level of data availability.
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Easy large file system administration - The costs associated with
administering large file systems can be staggering and keep escalating
year after year. With DiskSuite you can control those data
administration costs by utilizing the tools provided to manage growth.
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Improved File system Performance- When performing reboots on UNIX
systems, checks are made to ensure file system integrity. These checks
can take more than 10 minutes per gigabyte of storage. For large
environments this means systems and users can be offline for several
hours. With DiskSuite these extended reboot times are eliminated
because the system can reboot in tseconds per gigabyte, rather than
minutes.
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Improved I/O Performance - DiskSuite provides a number of tools to
maximize the performance of storage subsystems. With DiskSuite you
can achieve the highest utilization of your precious disk resources.
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Disk mirroring, hot spares, RAID-5 and
shared device support establishes high data
availability. These capabilities enhance the
performance aspects of DiskSuite to create the
most available and highest performing storage
subsystems possible. When combined with
Sun's future high availability offerings for NFS
and DBMS and the host failover facilities in
the shared device support, DiskSuite ensures
the highest data availability possible.
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Online large file system support ,file system
expansion capabilities and graphical user
interface provides flexible and easy
administration. With DiskSuite, expanding file
systems dynamically and growing them beyond
2GB is easy and reliable. The metadevice
Graphical User Interface provides easy and
error free metadevice (stripes, mirrors,
concatanations and logging devices) set-up and
administration.The GUI is designed to ensure
that mirrors are safely created by providing
submirror visability within the managed
configurations. Introduced in this version of
DiskSuite, the graphical user interface takes the
worry out of metadevice set-up and
administration.
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Logging UNIX file system (UFS) for
improved system performance. The logging
file system speeds system reboots from hours
down to minutes or even seconds. It also
improves system performance through faster
directory and file create/delete operations.
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Disk striping (RAID-0) and RAID-5 for I/O
performance enhancement. Disk Striping and
RAID-5 augment application performance by
spreading the I/O load over multiple disks.
RAID-5 provides a balance between
performance, data availability, and cost. and is
optimized for UNIX environments that are
characterized as having high request rates of
small to medium sized requests.
Hardware
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SPARCstation(TM) or SPARCserver(TM)
Operating System Software
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Solaris® 2.3 or later for SPARC
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Solaris 2.4 or later for x86
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Solaris 2.4 or later when using the Metadevice
Graphical User Interface
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Solaris 2.4 or later for Logging UNIX File
system and shared device support features.
System Configurations
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1GB disk space with at least 2 disk drives.
For ordering information on Solstice
DiskSuite 4.0, in the U.S., call
1-800-SUN-SOFT.
Outside the U.S., please call +1-415-960-3200
for the location of the nearest SunSoft office.