Index (Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide)

Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide


A

	adding hot spares ( )

	alternate boot device, x86 ( )

	alternate boot path ( )

	application based recovery ( )

	autotake disk set ( )


B

	boot problems ( )

	booting into single-user mode ( )


C

	concatenated stripe
		definition ( )
		example with three stripes ( )
		removing ( )

	concatenated volume, See concatenation

	concatenation
		creating ( )
		definition ( )
		example with three slices ( )
		expanding ( )
		expanding UFS file system ( )
		information for creating ( )
		information for recreating ( )
		removing ( )
		usage ( )

	configuration planning
		guidelines ( )
		overview ( )
		trade-offs ( )

	cron command ( )


D

	directed mirror reads ( )

	disk set ( )
		adding another host to ( )
		adding drives to ( ) ( )
		administering ( ) ( )
		autotake ( )
		checking status ( ) ( ) ( )
		checking status in Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console ( )
		creating ( )
		definition ( ) ( )
		displaying owner ( )
		example ( )
		example with two shared disk sets ( )
		importing ( )
		local ( )
		multi-owner ( )
			See multi-owner disk set
		named ( )
		placement of replicas ( )
		releasing ( )
		reservation behavior ( )
		reservation types ( )
		reserving ( ) ( ) ( )
		shared ( )
		usage ( )

	disk set administration ( )

	disk sets, importing ( )

	DiskSuite Tool, See graphical interface


E

	enabling a hot spare ( )

	enabling a slice in a RAID 5 volume ( )

	enabling a slice in a submirror ( )

	Enhanced Storage, See graphical interface

	errors, checking for using a script ( )

	/etc/lvm/md.cf file ( )

	/etc/lvm/mddb.cf file ( )

	/etc/rc2.d/S95lvm.sync file ( )

	/etc/rcS.d/S35lvm.init file ( )

	/etc/vfstab file ( ) ( ) ( )
		recovering from improper entries ( )


F

	failover configuration ( )

	file system
		expanding by creating a concatenation ( )
		expansion overview ( ) ( ) ( )
		growing ( )
		guidelines ( )
		panics ( )
		unmirroring ( )

	fmthard command ( ) ( )

	format command ( ) ( )

	fsck command ( ) ( )


G

	general performance guidelines ( )

	graphical interface, overview ( )

	growfs command ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

	growfs functionality ( )

	GUI, sample ( )


H

	hot spare ( )
		adding to a hot spare pool ( )
		conceptual overview ( )
		enabling ( )
		replacing in a hot spare pool ( )

	hot spare pool ( )
		administering ( )
		associating ( )
		basic operation ( )
		changing association ( )
		conceptual overview ( ) ( )
		definition ( ) ( )
		example with mirror ( )


I

	I/O ( )

	interfaces, See Solaris Volume Manager interfaces

	interlace, specifying ( )


K

	/kernel/drv/md.conf file ( ) ( )


L

	local disk set ( )

	lockfs command ( ) ( )

	log device
		definition ( )
		problems when sharing ( )
		shared ( ) ( )
		sharing ( )
		space required ( )

	logging device, hard error state ( )


M

	majority consensus algorithm ( )

	master device, definition ( )

	master node ( )

	md.cf file ( )
		recovering a Solaris Volume Manager configuration ( )

	md.tab file ( )
		overview ( )

	metaclear command ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

	metadb command ( ) ( )

	metadetach command ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

	metadevice, See volume

	metahs command ( ) ( )

	metaimport command ( ) ( )

	metainit command ( ) ( ) ( )

	metaoffline command ( ) ( )

	metaonline command ( )

	metaparam command ( ) ( ) ( )

	metarename command ( ) ( )

	metareplace command ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

	metaroot command ( )

	metaset command ( ) ( ) ( )

	metassist, See top down volume creation

	metastat command ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

	metasync command ( )

	metattach, task ( )

	metattach command ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
		attach RAID 5 component ( )
		attach submirror ( )

	mirror ( )
		and disk geometries ( )
		and online backup ( )
		attaching a submirror ( )
		changing options ( )
		definition ( )
		detach vs. offline ( )
		example with two submirrors ( )
		expanding ( )
		explanation of error states ( )
		guidelines ( )
		information for creating ( )
		information for replacing and enabling components ( )
		maintenance vs. last erred ( )
		options ( )
		overview of replacing and enabling components ( )
		overview of replacing and enabling slices ( )
		resynchronization ( ) ( )
		sample status output ( )
		three-way mirror ( )
		two-way mirror ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

	mirroring
		file system that can be unmounted ( )
		read and write performance ( )
		root (/), /usr, and swap ( )

	multi-owner disk set ( )
		defined ( )
		device id support ( )
		importing ( )
		master node ( )

	multi-owner disk sets
		RAID-1 volumes ( )
		tasks ( )


N

	named disk set ( )

	newfs command ( )


P

	pass number
		and read-only mirror ( )
		defined ( )


R

	RAID, levels supported in Solaris Volume Manager ( )

	RAID 0 volume
		definition ( ) ( )
		usage ( )

	RAID 5 parity calculations ( )

	RAID 5 volume
		and interlace ( )
		creating ( )
		definition ( ) ( )
		enabling a failed slice ( )
		example with an expanded device ( )
		example with four slices ( )
		expanding ( )
		explanation of error states ( )
		information for replacing and enabling components ( )
		initializing slices ( )
		maintenance vs. last erred ( )
		overview of replacing and enabling slices ( )
		parity information ( ) ( )
		replacing a failed slice ( )
		resynchronizing slices ( )

	random I/O ( )

	read policies overview ( )

	renaming volumes ( )

	replica ( )

	reserving a disk set ( )

	resynchronization
		full ( )
		optimized ( )
		partial ( )

	root (/), mirroring ( )


S

	SCSI disk
		replacing ( ) ( ) ( )

	sequential I/O ( )

	shared disk set ( )

	simple volume
		See RAID 0 volume
		definition ( )

	slices, expanding ( )

	soft partition
		checking status ( )
		creating ( )
		deleting ( )
		recovering configuration for ( )
		removing ( )

	soft partitioning
		definition ( )
		guidelines ( )
		locations ( )

	Solaris Volume Manager
		See Solaris Volume Manager
		configuration guidelines ( )
		recovering the configuration ( )

	Solaris Volume Manager elements, overview ( )

	Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster
		application based recovery ( )
		configuration ( )
		data management and recovery ( )
		directed mirror reads ( )
		optimized resynchronization ( )
		software components ( )

	Solaris Volume Manager interfaces
		command line ( )
		sample GUI ( )
		Solaris Management Console ( )

	state database
		conceptual overview ( ) ( )
		corrupt ( )
		definition ( ) ( )

	state database replicas ( )
		adding larger replicas ( )
		basic operation ( )
		creating multiple on a single slice ( )
		definition ( )
		errors ( )
		location ( ) ( ) ( )
		minimum number ( ) ( )
		two-disk configuration ( )
		usage ( )

	status ( )

	stripe
		creating ( )
		definition ( )
		example with three slices ( )
		expanding ( )
		information for creating ( )
		information for recreating ( )
		removing ( )

	striped volume, See stripe

	striping, definition ( )

	submirror ( )
		attaching ( )
		detaching ( )
		enabling a failed slice ( )
		operation while offline ( )
		replacing a failed slice ( )
		replacing entire ( )

	swap, unmirroring ( )

	system files ( )


T

	three-way mirror ( )

	top down volume creation, overview ( )

	transactional volume
		and /etc/vfstab file ( )
		creating for a file system that cannot be unmounted ( )
		creating using mirrors ( )
		definition ( )
		determining file systems to log ( )
		example with mirrors ( )
		example with shared log device ( )
		expanding ( )
		guidelines ( )
		recovering from errors ( ) ( )
		removing using metarename ( )
		states ( )
		usage ( )

	troubleshooting, general guidelines ( )


U

	UFS logging, definition ( )

	/usr, logging ( )


V

	/var/adm/messages file ( ) ( )

	volume
		conceptual overview ( )
		definition ( )
		expanding disk space ( )
		name switching ( ) ( )
		naming conventions ( ) ( )
		renaming ( )
		types ( )
		uses ( )
		using file system commands on ( )
		virtual disk ( )

	volume name switching ( ) ( )