Overview of DiskSuite Objects
The three basic types of objects that you create with DiskSuite are metadevices, state database replicas, and hot spare pools. Table 1-2 gives an overview of these DiskSuite objects.
Table 1-2 Summary of DiskSuite Objects|
DiskSuite Object |
What Is It? |
Why Use It? |
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A group of physical slices that appear to the system as a single, logical device |
To increase storage capacity and increase data availability. | ||
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A database that stores information on disk about the state of your DiskSuite configuration |
DiskSuite cannot operate until you have created the metadevice state database replicas. | ||
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A collection of slices (hot spares) reserved to be automatically substituted in case of slice failure in either a submirror or RAID5 metadevice |
To increase data availability for mirrors and RAID5 metadevices. |
Note -
DiskSuite Tool, DiskSuite's graphical user interface, also refers to the graphical representation of metadevices, the metadevice state database, and hot spare pools as "objects."
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