Thanks to
Oisin McGuinness <oisin_at_sbcm.com>
"C.Ruhnke" <i769646_at_smrs013a.mdc.com>
Felix Maurer maurerf_at_post.ch
Steve Thompson <smt_at_NICS1.corning.com>
who quickly answered my question and pointed me in the correct direction.
Here is my original question:
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> I have two Digital Unix 4.0D boxes connected via 10Mb Ethernet. Each box has
> about 6 9GB ultra wide scsi disks. I want to run LSM on both boxes to
> concatenate the disks into one volume.
>
> Now my question is, will LSM be smart enough to know when I start doing disk
> operations from one machine, it will do those disk operations on disks local
> to that machine as to avoid the 10Mb Ethernet bottleneck? Or should I just
> have those 6 disks on each machine be in a volume local to each machine?
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Here is the answer:
If you want 2 machines presenting 1, you want clustering and this is not a
capability of LSM. LSM will let you build multi-disk/striped/mirrored
volumes from a bunch of disks on 1 machine. You need TruCluster software,
licenses, special hardware etc. etc. to start up clustering.
Thanks again even though I should of known better:)
Michael
Received on Wed Jul 15 1998 - 23:16:15 NZST