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| 6630.1 | DUA/DIA = disk | CSC32::M_DIFABIO | MOVL #OPINION,EXE$GL_BLAKHOLE | Thu May 01 1997 16:33 | 8 |
| Dennis,
Depends on what VMS see's. From your description the stripesets
should appear as two DUA or DIA disks with equal geometry. Provided
that is true, the single disk license should allow you to shadow
those 'two' disks.
Mark d.
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| 6630.2 | Another opinion entered here... | NQOS02::nqsrv519.nqo.dec.com::SLOUGH | Dennis Slough; Novi, MI dtn 471-5154 | Thu May 01 1997 17:15 | 11 |
| Thanks for the reply. I got a different opinion from the Sales Support Call
Center after they did some research. Their opinion is the license is based
on the actual number of physical disks in the controller-based RAID stripeset,
(actually both RAID stripesets totalled). Surprised me.
This proposed solution is for a VAX 4000/500 which is in the Enterprise license
tier. Therefore a capacity license is not cost effective. The good news from
Digital's standpoint is this pushes the customer into an HSD50 pair to achieve
the dual redundant controller functionality they need.
Dennis
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| 6630.3 | They are thinking software -based, or just wrong | CSC32::M_DIFABIO | MOVL #OPINION,EXE$GL_BLAKHOLE | Fri May 02 1997 18:42 | 8 |
| Dennis,
I would ask Sales what utility on VMS they used to determine how
many disks are in the controller based set. VMS has no idea what type
of unit a controller is presenting. It could be a JBOD, Raid 0 set,
0+1, Raid1, Raid5... But all VMS knows is that it is a DK/DU device.
Mark d.
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