Should I Encapsulatate root dirve?

Hi,We bought Veritas Foundation Suite 5.0.to run on V890 ( Solaris 9)What are the advantage and disadvantages to encapsulate root drive.Thanks.Dilip
[183 byte] By [dilipraj] at [2007-11-26 11:52:59]
# 1
Initialization does not preserve data on disks. Therefore, if you want to preserve data on root disk you should encapsulate it.
zulusa at 2007-7-7 12:09:23 > top of Java-index,General,Sys Admin Best Practices...
# 2

Well, he also has a choice of just leaving them alone.

Depends on what you want exactly. Some organizations like having all disks under VxVM, so there you'd want to encapsulate. That also lets you mirror your root with VxVM.

However you can leave it alone and with version 4.0 or higher, VxVM won't care. They'll just show up in 'vxdisk list' as unconfigured disks all the time. You can do that if you prefer to mirror them with SVM.

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Darren

Darren_Dunham at 2007-7-7 12:09:23 > top of Java-index,General,Sys Admin Best Practices...