You create a volume as a RAID-0 (concatenation or stripe) volume, a RAID-1 (mirror) volume, a RAID-5 volume, .
You can use either the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console or the command-line utilities to create and administer volumes.
The following table summarizes the classes of volumes.
Table 3–2 Classes of Volumes
Volume |
Description |
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Can be used directly, or as the basic building block for mirrors. RAID-0 volumes do not directly provide data redundancy. |
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Replicates data by maintaining multiple copies. A RAID-1 volume is composed of one or more RAID-0 volumes that are called submirrors. |
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Replicates data by using parity information. In the case of disk failure, the missing data can be regenerated by using available data and the parity information. A RAID-5 volume is generally composed of slices. One slice's worth of space is allocated to parity information, but the parity is distributed across all slices in the RAID-5 volume. |
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Soft partition |
Divides a slice or logical volume into one or more smaller, extensible volumes. |