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Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Getting Started With Solaris Volume Manager

2.  Storage Management Concepts

3.  Solaris Volume Manager Overview

What's New in Solaris Volume Manager

Introduction to Solaris Volume Manager

How Solaris Volume Manager Manages Storage

How to Administer Solaris Volume Manager

How to Access the Solaris Volume Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Solaris Volume Manager Requirements

Overview of Solaris Volume Manager Components

Overview of Volumes

Classes of Volumes

How Volumes Are Used

Example--Volume That Consists of Two Slices

Volume and Disk Space Expansion Using the growfs Command

Volume Names

Volume Name Guidelines

State Database and State Database Replicas

Hot Spare Pools

Disk Sets

Solaris Volume Manager Configuration Guidelines

General Guidelines

File System Guidelines

Overview of Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components

Prerequisites for Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components

Overview of Multi-Terabyte Support in Solaris Volume Manager

Large Volume Support Limitations

Using Large Volumes

Upgrading to Solaris Volume Manager

4.  Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster (Overview)

5.  Configuring and Using Solaris Volume Manager (Scenario)

6.  State Database (Overview)

7.  State Database (Tasks)

8.  RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Overview)

9.  RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Tasks)

10.  RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Overview)

11.  RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Tasks)

12.  Soft Partitions (Overview)

13.  Soft Partitions (Tasks)

14.  RAID-5 Volumes (Overview)

15.  RAID-5 Volumes (Tasks)

16.  Hot Spare Pools (Overview)

17.  Hot Spare Pools (Tasks)

18.  Disk Sets (Overview)

19.  Disk Sets (Tasks)

20.  Maintaining Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)

21.  Best Practices for Solaris Volume Manager

22.  Top-Down Volume Creation (Overview)

23.  Top-Down Volume Creation (Tasks)

24.  Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)

25.  Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)

A.  Important Solaris Volume Manager Files

B.  Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference

C.  Solaris Volume Manager CIM/WBEM API

Index

Solaris Volume Manager Configuration Guidelines

A poorly designed Solaris Volume Manager configuration can degrade performance. This section offers tips for achieving good performance from Solaris Volume Manager. For information on storage configuration performance guidelines, see General Performance Guidelines.

General Guidelines

File System Guidelines

Do not mount file systems on a volume's underlying slice. If a slice is used for a volume of any kind, you must not mount that slice as a file system. If possible, unmount any physical device that you intend to use as a volume before you activate the volume.