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Post 302844957 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 20th of August 2013 12:12:05 PM
08-20-2013
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I would be concerned that you are setting yourself up for a crash running an LPAR with a single disk, even if they are on separate controllers. You have no protection against disk failure in that set-up, so I would suggest that your server is not really capable of supporting more than a simple whole server.
Consider a disk failure, LPAR is down, end of. You are in a DR situation.
Is that acceptable? Protecting yourself involves spending money somewhere, I'm afraid. Do you have any external (SAN) storage available? Of course, you would need a method to connect to the SAN then..... 
Other things to consider are ethernet cards. Do you have enough available for two LPARs? You would need at least two for each, one public, one management/data backup LAN etc. There is lots to consider before just launching yourself into running too much on a low-spec server.
I hope that this gives you something to think on. Feel free to come back with more questions though.
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
Consider a disk failure, LPAR is down, end of. You are in a DR situation.
Is that acceptable? Protecting yourself involves spending money somewhere, I'm afraid. Do you have any external (SAN) storage available? Of course, you would need a method to connect to the SAN then..... Other things to consider are ethernet cards. Do you have enough available for two LPARs? You would need at least two for each, one public, one management/data backup LAN etc. There is lots to consider before just launching yourself into running too much on a low-spec server.
I hope that this gives you something to think on. Feel free to come back with more questions though.
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
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pkg2du - convert driver packages to Driver Update format SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/pkg2du [-f] [-v] [-d dir] [-o iso] [-l label] [-r release] pkg [pkg ...] DESCRIPTION
The /usr/bin/pkg2du utility takes one or more packages as input and converts them to Driver Update (DU) format. If the -d option is speci- fied, the resulting DU directory tree is placed in the directory dir. If the -o option is specified, a Solaris ISO image of the DU direc- tory tree is written in the file iso. The ISO image can be burned onto CD/DVD using cdrw(1) or cdrecord(1) (not a SunOS man page) and used during Solaris installation. At least one of the -d and -o options must be specified. If both are specified, then both an ISO image and a directory tree are generated. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -d dir Directory where the DU directory should be created. -o iso Create a Solaris ISO image of the DU directory. -f If dir/DU or iso exists, remove it without asking first. -l label Label/volume name of the ISO image (if -o option is specified). -r release Solaris release number to use. It takes the form of the return from uname -r command, for example, 5.10. If unspecified, the release number of the currently running Solaris is used. -v Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: pkg [pkg...] One or more packages to be converted to DU format. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Creating a DU CD/DVD The following commands create a DU CD or DVD containing packages SUNWfoo and SUNWbar. # /usr/bin/pkg2du -r 5.10 -o my.iso SUNWfoo SUNWbar # /usr/bin/cdrw -i my.iso ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cdrw(1), mkcd(1M), attributes(5) mkisofs(8), (/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8), in the SUNWfsman package (not a SunOS man page) SunOS 5.11 29 Jul 2008 pkg2du(1M)