How to Create Solaris Volume Manager Components in a Disk Set

After you create a disk set, you can create volumes and hot spare pools using the disks you added to the disk set. You can use either the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console or the command-line utilities.

To create volumes or other Solaris Volume Manager components within a disk set, use one of the following methods:

• From the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console, open the Volumes, State Database Replicas, or Hot Spare Pools node. Choose Action⇒Create. Then follow the instructions in the wizard. For more information, see the online help.

• Use the same command line utilities with the same basic syntax to create volumes, state database replicas, or hot spare pools. However, add -s disk-set immediately after the command for every command.

  # command -s disk-set

Example 19–5 Creating Solaris Volume Manager Volumes in a Disk Set

The following example shows the creation of a mirror, d10, in the disk set, blue. The mirror consists of submirrors (RAID-0 volumes), d11 and d12.

# metainit -s blue d11 1 1 c1t6d0s0
blue/d11: Concat/Stripe is setup
# metainit -s blue d12 1 1 c2t6d0s0
blue/d12: Concat/Stripe is setup
# metainit -s blue d10 -m d11           
blue/d10: Mirror is setup
# metattach -s blue d10 d12
blue/d10: submirror blue/d12 is attached

# metastat -s blue
blue/d10: Mirror
    Submirror 0: blue/d11
      State: Okay         
    Submirror 1: blue/d12
      State: Resyncing    
    Resync in progress: 0 % done
    Pass: 1
    Read option: roundrobin (default)
    Write option: parallel (default)
    Size: 17674902 blocks

blue/d11: Submirror of blue/d10
    State: Okay         
    Size: 17674902 blocks
    Stripe 0:
        Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Reloc  Hot Spare
        c1t6d0s0                   0     No    Okay                


blue/d12: Submirror of blue/d10
    State: Resyncing    
    Size: 17674902 blocks
    Stripe 0:
        Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Reloc  Hot Spare
        c2t6d0s0                   0     No    Okay