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Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
1. Getting Started With Solaris Volume Manager
2. Storage Management Concepts
3. Solaris Volume Manager Overview
What's New in Solaris Volume Manager
Introduction to Solaris Volume Manager
How Solaris Volume Manager Manages Storage
How to Administer Solaris Volume Manager
How to Access the Solaris Volume Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Solaris Volume Manager Requirements
Overview of Solaris Volume Manager Components
Example--Volume That Consists of Two Slices
Volume and Disk Space Expansion Using the growfs Command
State Database and State Database Replicas
Solaris Volume Manager Configuration Guidelines
Overview of Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components
Prerequisites for Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components
Overview of Multi-Terabyte Support in Solaris Volume Manager
Large Volume Support Limitations
Upgrading to Solaris Volume Manager
4. Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster (Overview)
5. Configuring and Using Solaris Volume Manager (Scenario)
8. RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Overview)
9. RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Tasks)
10. RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Overview)
11. RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Tasks)
12. Soft Partitions (Overview)
16. Hot Spare Pools (Overview)
20. Maintaining Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)
21. Best Practices for Solaris Volume Manager
22. Top-Down Volume Creation (Overview)
23. Top-Down Volume Creation (Tasks)
24. Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)
25. Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)
A. Important Solaris Volume Manager Files
B. Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference
When you create a Solaris Volume Manager component, you assign physical slices to a logical Solaris Volume Manager name, such as d0. The Solaris Volume Manager components that you can create include the following:
State database replicas
Volumes (RAID-0 (stripes, concatenations), RAID-1 (mirrors), RAID-5, and soft partitions)
Hot spare pools
Disk sets
The prerequisites for creating Solaris Volume Manager components 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 GUI, start the Solaris Management Console and navigate to the Solaris Volume Manager feature. For information, see How to Access the Solaris Volume Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI).