4. Conclusion: Closing Notes

Hopefully this all helps a bit. Even if you didn't know anything about RAID, you should now understand the different types of RAID and be able to make decisions about what you can do with one and in which cases each are useful. This is only the very, very beginning. Now it's time to talk Volume Managers, the mechanism by which all this comes together and works for us. In our next course, we'll learn about the Veritas Volume Manager in particular. Be aware that Veritas isn't the only Volume Manager out there, there is also Sun Solstice DiskSuite, Sun RAID Manager, and others that I don't even know the names of.

This isn't enough information, though. When you choose a volume manager, the documentation will almost always talk about RAID types in detail. This course you've just read is simply a different style of explanation which I've found is better than most others. Here are some links to other places that explain RAID concepts: