And by optimizing your resources and enabling them to scale to meet demand, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment helps you to minimize costs and lower your total cost of ownership. Solstice DiskSuite provides a comprehensive data-redundancy solution. It transparently maintains a mirror copy of data on another disk and automatically uses the surviving copy in the event of hardware failure. By distributing parity information across all disks in the RAID array, it allows recovery from any single disk failure within the array without data loss. The size of each soft partition is independently configurable.
Soft partitions provide the flexibility to effectively utilize high-capacity storage devices.
They make it easy to create multiple file systems or disk partitions on top of underlying Raid 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5 volumes that have already been configured to provide the required data availability and performance characteristics. Hot Spare Online system recovery is supplemented by the use of a hot-spare utility that automatically replaces failed RAID 1 or RAID 5 components. This facility migrates new partitions to replace failing ones. Users continue to access the surviving copy of the data while a new mirror is automatically generated - without interrupting service. Improved Data Reliability and Integrity Solstice DiskSuite software provides the cornerstone for data reliability and integrity in your enterprise.