Hello UNIX Experts.
I am responsible for our company's LAN and Clariion SAN environments. My primary responsibilities have always been on the Windows server side for disk on the SAN. I no nothing about UNIX. I think it might be a rock group.?
I am now being asked to provide a new disk/LUN on our Clariion, which houses all UNIX host data as well. The disk is going to provide adequate sizing for what I am told is the UNIX "swap space". I have no idea what this "swap space" acts like or does, and I would appreciate an explanation so that I can create an appropriate LUN.
On the Clariion, my options include choosing a separate bus, enclosure and physical disk drives which I might do anyway, but should I choose RAID 1 or RAID5?
In addition, what about providing this "swap space" LUN on a completely separate fiber channel adapter in the UNIX host? Will that accomplish anything? The bottom line is, I don't want to make things worse. I want to know what I am doing and why, and provide the best configuration possible to the UNIX admin.
Kurt