Not only do VxFS storage checkpoints require an additional license, it’s the database edition license, which is not covered under ScholarPAC.
The quoted price for DBED with FlashSnap (which I’m learning is actually a VxVM feature) was about $1500, which is not feasible for RAHU. I‘m going to be investigating using VxFS snapshots to see if they might work. The documentation is unclear as to whether making multiple snapshots at different times will actually do what I want – that is, have the last _N_ days of snapshots available for online restore. The doco claims that “there can be more than one snapshot of a file system, [but] they are all based on a single, parent file system. Storage Checkpoints can be based on other Storage Checkpoints.” This leaves me wondering what “single, parent file system” really means – is that just that you can’t have a snapshot of a snapshot (obviously pointless) or that all snapshots of a file system are really going to end up being identical? Testing will tell.
The other thing to do is to upgrade to Vx(VM|FS) 4.0, which we got in the mail today (as 3.5 was end-of-lifed in February without our knowledge, but our licenses should work fine for 4.0).
And the VEA gui console sat in an infinite loop this afternoon. Hmm.
Posted by Rowan Littell at March 22, 2004 05:25 PM