Check Prerequisites for Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components and Background Information for Creating RAID-5 Volumes.
To create a RAID-5 volume, use one of the following methods:
From the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console, open the Volumes node. Choose Action⇒Create Volume. Then, follow the steps in the wizard. For more information, see the online help.
Use the following form of the metainit command:
# metainit wolume-name -r component component component -i interlace-value |
Specifies the name of the volume to create.
Specifies to create a RAID-5 volume.
Specifies a slice or soft partition to include in the RAID-5 volume. At least 3 components are required.
Specifies an interlace value.
For more information, see the metainit(1M) man page.
In this example, the RAID-5 volume d45 is created with the -r option from 3 slices. Because no interlace value is specified, d45 uses the default of 512 Kbytes. The system verifies that the RAID-5 volume has been set up and begins initializing the volume.
You must wait for the initialization to finish before you can use the RAID-5 volume.
# metainit d45 -r c2t3d0s2 c3t0d0s2 c4t0d0s2 d45: RAID is setup |
To prepare the newly created RAID-5 volume for a file system, see Chapter 18, Creating UFS, TMPFS, and LOFS File Systems (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems. Some applications, such as a database, do not use a file system. These applications instead use the raw volume. The application must have its own way of recognizing the volume.
To associate a hot spare pool with a RAID-5 volume, see How to Associate a Hot Spare Pool With a Volume.