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A5x00 (photon) Cheat Sheet

Updated 12 Jul 2002 Read time 2 min(s) 42 sec(s) (2119 visits).

This article provides a quick reference guide to the supported disk configuration on a Sun StorEdge A5x00 storage array.

Updated 29 Sep 2001 Read time 1 min 20 sec(s) (2625 visits).

metatree is a simple awk script that pretty prints the Solstie DiskSuite 'metastat -p' output into a user friendly format.

Updated 29 Sep 2001 Read time 3 min(s) 2 sec(s) (2417 visits).

metaview is a simple script to pretty print the metastat output from disksuite showing all metadevices and mirror status side-by-side.

Updated 24 Jun 1999 Read time 4 min(s) 2 sec(s) (2596 visits).

A full discussion is beyond the scope of this article, so we will focus on the most common cases, how to set them up, manage them and maintain them.