The Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide explains how to use SolarisTM Volume Manager to manage your system's storage needs, including creating, modifying, and using RAID 0 (concatenation and stripe) volumes, RAID 1 (mirror) volumes, and RAID 5 volumes, in addition to soft partitions and transactional log devices.
System and storage administrators will use this book to identify the tasks that Solaris Volume Manager supports and how to use Solaris Volume Manager to provide more reliable and accessible data.
The Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide includes the following information:
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Solaris Volume Manager provides a detailed “roadmap” to the concepts and tasks described in this book and should be used solely as a navigational aid to the book's content.
Chapter 2, Storage Management Concepts provides an introduction to general storage management concepts for those readers who are new to this technology.
Chapter 3, Solaris Volume Manager Overview describes Solaris Volume Manager and introduces essential product-related concepts.
Chapter 4, Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster (Overview) provides an introduction to multi-owner disk sets that enhance Solaris Volume Manager in a SunTM Cluster environment.
Chapter 5, Configuring and Using Solaris Volume Manager (Scenario) provides an overall scenario for understanding the Solaris Volume Manager product.
Chapter 6, State Database (Overview) describes concepts related to state databases and state database replicas.
Chapter 7, State Database (Tasks) explains how to perform tasks related to state databases and state database replicas.
Chapter 8, RAID 0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Overview) describes concepts related to RAID 0 (stripe and concatenation) volumes.
Chapter 9, RAID 0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Tasks) explains how to perform tasks related to RAID 0 (stripe and concatenation) volumes.
Chapter 10, RAID 1 (Mirror) Volumes (Overview) describes concepts related to RAID 1 (mirror) volumes.
Chapter 11, RAID 1 (Mirror) Volumes (Tasks) explains how to perform tasks related to RAID 1 (mirror) volumes.
Chapter 12, Soft Partitions (Overview) describes concepts related to the Solaris Volume Manager soft partitioning feature.
Chapter 13, Soft Partitions (Tasks) explains how to perform soft partitioning tasks.
Chapter 14, RAID 5 Volumes (Overview) describes concepts related to RAID 5 volumes.
Chapter 15, RAID 5 Volumes (Tasks) explains how to perform tasks related to RAID 5 volumes.
Chapter 16, Hot Spare Pools (Overview) describes concepts related to hot spares and hot spare pools.
Chapter 17, Hot Spare Pools (Tasks) explains how to perform tasks related to hot spares and hot spare pools.
Chapter 18, Transactional Volumes (Overview) describes concepts related to transactional volumes.
Chapter 19, Transactional Volumes (Tasks) explains how to perform tasks related to transactional volumes.
Chapter 20, Disk Sets (Overview) describes concepts related to disk sets.
Chapter 21, Disk Sets (Tasks) explains how to perform tasks related to disk sets.
Chapter 22, Maintaining Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks) explains some general maintenance tasks that are not related to a specific Solaris Volume Manager component.
Chapter 23, Best Practices for Solaris Volume Manager provides some “best practices” information about configuring and using Solaris Volume Manager.
Chapter 24, Automatic (Top Down) Volume Creation (Tasks) describes concepts of and tasks related to the Solaris Volume Manager top-down volume creation feature.
Chapter 25, Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks) provides concepts and instructions for using the Solaris Volume Manager SNMP agent and for other error checking approaches.
Chapter 26, Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks) provides information about troubleshooting and solving common problems in the Solaris Volume Manager environment.
Appendix A, Important Solaris Volume Manager Files lists important Solaris Volume Manager files.
Appendix B, Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference provides tables that summarize commands and other helpful information.
Appendix C, Solaris Volume Manager CIM/WBEM API provides a brief introduction to the CIM/WBEM API that allows open Solaris Volume Manager management from WBEM-compliant management tools.
Solaris Volume Manager is one of several system administration tools available for the Solaris operating system. Information about overall system administration features and functions, as well as related tools are provided in the following:
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The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.
Table P–1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
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AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
AaBbCc123 |
Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms or terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. Do not save the file. |
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–2 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
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C shell prompt |
machine_name% |
C shell superuser prompt |
machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt |
$ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt |
# |