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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

What's New in Disk Management?

This section describes new disk management features in the Solaris 9 release.

Solaris Volume Manager and Soft Partitioning

The previously unbundled Solstice DiskSuiteTM product is now part of the Solaris 9 release and is called Solaris Volume Manager. Solaris Volume Manager's new partitioning feature, soft partitioning, enables more than eight partitions per disk.

For general information about Solaris Volume Manager, see “Storage Management Concepts” in Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide. For information on soft partitioning, see “Soft Partitions (Overview)” in Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide.