Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

Overview of Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components

When you create a Solaris Volume Manager component, you assign physical slices to a logical Solaris Volume Manager name. The Solaris Volume Manager elements that you can create include the following:

State database replicas
Volumes (RAID 0 (stripes, concatenations), RAID 1 (mirrors), RAID 5, soft partitions, and transactional volumes)
Hot spare pools
Disk sets

Note –

For suggestions on how to name volumes, see Volume Names.

Prerequisites for Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components

The prerequisites for creating Solaris Volume Manager elements are as follows:

Create initial state database replicas. If you have not done so, see Creating State Database Replicas.
Identify slices that are available for use by Solaris Volume Manager. If necessary, use the format command, the fmthard command, or the Solaris Management Console to repartition existing disks.
Make sure you have root privilege.
Have a current backup of all data.
If you are using the graphical user interface, start the Solaris Management Console and maneuver through the interface to use the Solaris Volume Manager feature. For information, see How to Access the Solaris Volume Manager Graphical User Interface.