Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

Solaris Volume Manager Roadmap—Storage Capacity

Table 1–2 Solaris Volume Manager Roadmap—Storage Capacity

Task 

Description 

For Instructions 

Set up storage 

Create storage that spans slices by creating a RAID 0 or a RAID 5 volume. The RAID 0 or RAID 5 volume can then be used for a file system or any application, such as a database that accesses the raw device 

How to Create a RAID 0 (Stripe) Volume

How to Create a RAID 0 (Concatenation) Volume

How to Create a RAID 1 Volume From Unused Slices

How to Create a RAID 1 Volume From a File System

How to Create a RAID 5 Volume

Expand an existing file system 

Increase the capacity of an existing file system by creating a RAID 0 (concatenation) volume, then adding additional slices. 

How to Expand Storage Space for Existing Data

Expand an existing RAID 0 (concatenation or stripe) volume 

Expand an existing RAID 0 volume by concatenating additional slices to it. 

How to Expand an Existing RAID 0 Volume

Expand a RAID 5 volume 

Expand the capacity of a RAID 5 volume by concatenating additional slices to it. 

How to Expand a RAID 5 Volume

Increase the size of a UFS file system on a expanded volume 

Grow a file system by using the growfs command to expand the size of a UFS while it is mounted and without disrupting access to the data.

How to Expand a File System

Subdivide slices or logical volumes into smaller partitions, breaking the 8 slice hard partition limit 

Subdivide logical volumes or slices by using soft partitions. 

How to Create a Soft Partition

Create a file system 

Create a file system on a RAID 0 (stripe or concatenation), RAID 1 (mirror), RAID 5,or transactional volume, or on a soft partition. 

“Creating File Systems (Tasks)” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration