Introduction to Disk Mirroring | CentreVu CMS Release 3 Version 8 |
How CMS implements disk mirroring | 8 |
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Mirror layout on a Sun On a Sun Enterprise 3500 platform, the mirror layout must always be
Enterprise 3500 | based upon the bays in which the disks are installed. Submirrors 11, 15, | |||||||||||
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| submirrors 12,16, and 20 are the disks in the upper bay (targets 4 | |||||||
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| through 7 on controller 1). The table below shows the mirror layout. | |||||||
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| mirror d13 |
| mirror d21 |
| mirror d17 |
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| No. | submirror | submirror |
| submirror | submirror |
| submirror | submirror |
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| Disks | d11 | d12 |
| d19 | d20 |
| d15 | d16 |
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| 2 |
| c0t0d0s0 | c1t4d0s0 |
| c0t0d0s3 | c1t4d0s3 |
| c0t0d0s4 | c1t4d0s4 |
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| 4 |
| c0t0d0s0 | c1t4d0s0 |
| c0t0d0s3 | c1t4d0s3 |
| c0t0d0s4 | c1t4d0s4 |
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| c0t1d0s1 | c1t5d0s1 |
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| c0t0d0s3 | c1t4d0s3 |
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| 6 |
| c0t0d0s0 | c1t4d0s0 |
| c0t1d0s1 | c1t5d0s1 |
| c0t0d0s4 | c1t4d0s4 |
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| c0t2d0s1 | c1t6d0s1 |
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| c0t0d0s3 | c1t4d0s3 |
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| c0t0d0s0 | c1t4d0s0 |
| c0t1d0s1 | c1t5d0s1 |
| c0t0d0s4 | c1t4d0s4 |
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| c0t3d0s1 | c1t7d0s1 |
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Required hardware In order for your CMS system to be mirrored, it must have the following hardware installed in addition to the hardware already installed:
●For a Sun Enterprise 3500 system, two GigaByte Interface Converter (GBIC) modules. One will be installed into the UA slot on the
●For a Sun Enterprise 3500 system, a fiber cable to connect the UA port GBIC to GBIC Port 1 on the I/O board.
●Twice the number of disk drives needed for an unmirrored system. All the disks must be the same size.