Volume Management Support

A volume manager enables you to manage large numbers of disks and the data on those disks. Volume managers can increase storage capacity and data availability by offering the following features:

• Disk-drive striping and concatenation

• Disk-mirroring

• Disk-drive hot spares

• Disk-failure handling and disk replacements

Sun Cluster systems support the following volume managers:

• Solaris Volume Manager

• VERITAS Volume Manager