Folks,

My HPUX skills are about two and a half years behind the times and it 
will hurt (and likely) cost me some. I do have an old F30 running HP-UX 
10.20 so I'm sure that is going to prove some help.

I'm looking at jobs in the UK and notice one contract that requires LVM 
and "SLVM".

Thus - My question - What is SLVM?  Has SLVM got something to do with 
Storage Area Networks? I'm just guessing but pointers would be much 
appreciated - especially if there is a big or small learning curve for 
someone to pickup 'SLVM' if they have reasonably strong LVM skills....

Thanks in advance,
randell d.

I guess it is just a typo in the contract description. I never heard of SLVM
and this did not keep me from managing 25 HP9000 systems running 11 and 11i
the last 2 years. Beside LVM hpux now also comes with VXVM from Veritas as a
bonus. However, mirroring and online file system increase still requires an
extra license.

Paul

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> Folks,
>
> My HPUX skills are about two and a half years behind the times and it
> will hurt (and likely) cost me some. I do have an old F30 running HP-UX
> 10.20 so I'm sure that is going to prove some help.
>
> I'm looking at jobs in the UK and notice one contract that requires LVM
> and "SLVM".
>
> Thus - My question - What is SLVM?  Has SLVM got something to do with
> Storage Area Networks? I'm just guessing but pointers would be much
> appreciated - especially if there is a big or small learning curve for
> someone to pickup 'SLVM' if they have reasonably strong LVM skills....
>
> Thanks in advance,
> randell d.

Paul Sure wrote:
> I guess it is just a typo in the contract description. I never heard of SLVM
> and this did not keep me from managing 25 HP9000 systems running 11 and 11i
> the last 2 years. Beside LVM hpux now also comes with VXVM from Veritas as a
> bonus. However, mirroring and online file system increase still requires an
> extra license.
> 
> Paul
> 
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>>Folks,
>>
>>My HPUX skills are about two and a half years behind the times and it
>>will hurt (and likely) cost me some. I do have an old F30 running HP-UX
>>10.20 so I'm sure that is going to prove some help.
>>
>>I'm looking at jobs in the UK and notice one contract that requires LVM
>>and "SLVM".
>>
>>Thus - My question - What is SLVM?  Has SLVM got something to do with
>>Storage Area Networks? I'm just guessing but pointers would be much
>>appreciated - especially if there is a big or small learning curve for
>>someone to pickup 'SLVM' if they have reasonably strong LVM skills....
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>randell d.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for that...
randelld

Paul Sure <phv_temp@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I guess it is just a typo in the contract description. I never heard
> of SLVM and this did not keep me from managing 25 HP9000 systems
> running 11 and 11i the last 2 years. Beside LVM hpux now also comes
> with VXVM from Veritas as a bonus. However, mirroring and online
> file system increase still requires an extra license.
> ...
> "Reply Via Newsgroup" <reply-to-newsgroup@please.com> wrote in message
> news:A%_ec.108359$Ig.23152@pd7tw2no...
>> I'm looking at jobs in the UK and notice one contract that requires LVM
>> and "SLVM".

Did the contract also happen to mention ServiceGuard and clusters?  At
some point I seem to recall SLVM being "Shared LVM" in the context of
SG clusters.

rick jones
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SLVM is the LVM technology necessary for the Oracle Parallel Server on HPUX
10.20 and 11.X

You configure oracle with RAW logical volumes that can accessed on 2 or more
systems.  A Superset of the MC/ServiceGuard software called MC/Lockmanager
or MC/ServiceGuard OPS Edition handles write access to the logical volumes.
You can think of it as MC/ServiceGuard ++ specific to paralle instances of
oracle across multiple nodes.

I hope this helps

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>
> Folks,
>
> My HPUX skills are about two and a half years behind the times and it
> will hurt (and likely) cost me some. I do have an old F30 running HP-UX
> 10.20 so I'm sure that is going to prove some help.
>
> I'm looking at jobs in the UK and notice one contract that requires LVM
> and "SLVM".
>
> Thus - My question - What is SLVM?  Has SLVM got something to do with
> Storage Area Networks? I'm just guessing but pointers would be much
> appreciated - especially if there is a big or small learning curve for
> someone to pickup 'SLVM' if they have reasonably strong LVM skills....
>
> Thanks in advance,
> randell d.