Thanks to all who responded: JV Joe Fletcher Sal Serafino There were two things going: the replicas were failing; the server was refusing to boot because it had lost half its state replicas. I was so focused on figuring on why it was losing the replica's I didn't stop to think about the effect of losing them as it were ;) There are issues with certain types of RAID devices being used for state db replicas. I am not sure exactly what the distinction is, perhaps just 'any hardware RAID' is the safest assumption, but the documentation doesn't categorically state this in Solaris VM. JBOD configurations, even with the 3510 I believe, are fine for state db replicas. What would appear to be the most relevant doc I turned up on SunSolve is this: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-77518-1&searchcl ause=unable%20maintain%20state The best solution for my purposes anyway is to add more state replicas to the internal disks so that the inability of the server to read the external ones during boot up doesn't tip it over the 50%+1 threshold and refuse to boot. Thank-you, managers, for your time. - thor _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Mar 18 12:58:45 2005
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