Thanks to: Tim Chipman Darren Dunham Joe Fletcher Scott Howard Tim Lynch On the purely technical question of whether it would be possible to use the A1000 on a Linux box, the answer was yes; but there isn't an analog to Raid Manager for Linux, so it would be difficult to administer it. Tim Lynch pointed out that the A1000 has a serial console, but even then there would be no way to receive notices. But the general consensus was that I should think twice about purchasing an A1000: it's getting pretty long in the tooth, and there are better third-party solutions out there that are truly multi-platform. Specific recommendations included the AC&NC Jetstor and Compaq/HP's Storageworks RA3000 (though I'm not sure that latter supports Linux). Thanks for the help! I'm going to do some more research into third-party alternatives now. -David On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, David Eisner wrote: > We're thinking of purchasing another A1000 that will be > attached to a Solaris SPARC machine. > > At some point in the future, however, we may want to > move the array over to an x86 server running Linux. > We'd reformat and recover the data from tape. > > Since it's HW raid, it seems like this should be > possible -- but is it? What software, if any, would > correspond to Raid Manager? > > Thanks. > > -David ------------------------+--------------------------+ David Eisner | E-mail: cradle@umd.edu | CALCE EPSC | Phone: 301-405-5341 | University of Maryland | Fax: 301-314-9269 | ------------------------+--------------------------+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Nov 4 10:31:43 2002
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