Planning and documentation of disk layout is 98% of the work with disksuite. This includes understanding current layout, understanding and designing for Disksuite databases and the writting the process for implementation.
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Disksuite Requirements
- Metadb: The disksuite database, requires a minimum of three with 50% of the dbs available and they should be spread across as many disk controllers as possible.
Metadb requires a seperate disk slice with about 1MB of space.
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Thinking about slices and layout.
Typically you have two disk you are working with, one disk will have the OS and data installed. The other disk will have nothing on it and will be come the mirror.
The first step will be to create slices for the metadb on the primary [Disk:
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