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Old 12-04-2014
We have 4 disk and using hardware raid. But i dont know it's configure as what. How to access hardware raid manager? I did use monitor it's not show bios. I do some research on the net but don't find any related document for access hardware raid.

What i'm using stripe mode in zfs? Is it can recover if one disk failure? How to set raid 10 in zfs? I only get complete tutorial about raid 5 in zfs.

This machine will be install with oracle vm on the top of solaris 11. But from the text command to install oracle vm?
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Old 12-04-2014
There is no BIOS on SPARC hardware but an OpenBoot PROM.

Have a look to this page for RAID configuration.
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22985_01...e11389320.html

You cannot use striping or RAID10 with the root pool, only mirroring is supported.

Oracle VM is not on top of Solaris 11, that's this other way around as the hypervisor is built in hardware with UltraSPARC T.
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# 10  
Old 12-07-2014
How about raidz? Is it same as raid 5? Can i use raidz in sparc t4?

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Is this stripe mode?
Code:
https://community.oracle.com/thread/2488541?tstart=0

Is it capale i doing this is sparc t4 machine? Now i can see 1 disk attach in zpool. The other 3 is not format yet.
# 11  
Old 12-07-2014
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Originally Posted by mzainal
How about raidz? Is it same as raid 5?
It is not the same, although it share some similarities.
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Can i use raidz in sparc t4?
Yes, but not for the root pool.
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---------- Post updated at 06:27 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:01 AM ----------

Is this stripe mode?
Code:
https://community.oracle.com/thread/2488541?tstart=0

Precisely.
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Is it capale i doing this is sparc t4 machine? Now i can see 1 disk attach in zpool. The other 3 is not format yet.
You can create second pool based on raidz with the three remaining disks if you are looking for both redundancy and capacity.
You can create a stripe with these disks if you are looking for maximum capacity.
For better reliability and performance, you can also use the first disk as a mirror for the root pool and use the remaining two disks as another mirrored pool.

You are also free to use UFS with these extra disks, or just use them or partitions on them as raw devices for ldoms or kernel zones.
# 12  
Old 12-08-2014
Data is already available in disk 1. If i adding new disk to root pool as stripe is there any impact?

Last edited by mzainal; 12-08-2014 at 07:09 PM.. Reason: edit
# 13  
Old 12-08-2014
As already stated, you cannot add a disk to stripe the root pool.
# 14  
Old 12-08-2014
Is there any step to fast format new disk?
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