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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Overall Planning of an Oracle Solaris Installation or Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Oracle Solaris Installation and Upgrade Roadmap

3.  System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade Information

4.  Gathering Information Before an Installation or Upgrade

Part II Understanding Installations Related to ZFS, Booting, Oracle Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes

5.  ZFS Root File System Installation Planning

6.  SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)

7.  Upgrading When Oracle Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System

8.  Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)

Why Use RAID-1 Volumes?

How Do RAID-1 Volumes Work?

Overview of Solaris Volume Manager Components

State Database and State Database Replicas

RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)

RAID-0 Volumes (Concatenations)

Example of RAID-1 Volume Disk Layout

9.  Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 8

Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)

This chapter discusses the advantages of creating RAID-1 volumes (mirrors) for the root (/) file system. This chapter also describes the Solaris Volume Manager components that are required to create mirrors for file systems. This chapter includes the following topics:

For additional information specific to Live Upgrade or JumpStart, see the following references:

For detailed information about complex Solaris Volume Manager software and components, see Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide.