Solstice DiskSuite 4.2

Solstice DiskSuite increases the availability, flexibility, safety and performance of UNIX storage subsystems, providing system administrators and users with features previously available only on proprietary systems:

• Disk mirroring handles all disk failures transparently, which improves availability.

• RAID-5 for the most cost effective combination of data availability and performance.

• Fully automatic online recovery with "hot spares" facility.

• Shared device support for high availability configurations.

• Logging UNIX file system eliminates fsck for fast system recovery.

• File system size is expandable online.

• Increased performance through disk striping.

• Logging UNIX file system increases NFS® and database server performance.

• Graphical User Interface for intuitive metadevice set-up and administration.

• Flexibility to manage and reconfigure hundreds of disks online.

• Uses loadable driver technology - no more kernel rebuilds.

• Fully compatible with standard UNIX file system, all file systems, databases, and applications.

Requirements for Solstice DiskSuite

Operating System Software

• Solaris 2.6 or later for SPARC® platforms

• Solaris 2.6 for x86 platforms

Typical System Configuration

• 2 Gbytes disk space or more, with at least 2 drives

For more information, search Sun's World Wide Web home page (http://www.sun.com/) for the Solstice DiskSuite Product Brief.