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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
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
Solaris Volume Manager fully supports seamless upgrade from Solstice DiskSuite versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.2.1. Make sure that all volumes are in Okay state (not “Needs Maintenance” or “Last Erred”) and that no hot spares are in use. You do not need to do anything else special to Solaris Volume Manager for the upgrade to work—it is not necessary to change the configuration or break down the root mirror. When you upgrade your system, the Solstice DiskSuite configuration will be brought forward and will be accessible after upgrade through Solaris Volume Manager tools.
The Solaris 10 OS introduced the Service Management Facility (SMF), which provides an infrastructure that augments the traditional UNIX start-up scripts, init run levels, and configuration files. When upgrading from a previous version of the Solaris OS, verify that the SMF services associated with Solaris Volume Manager are online. If the SMF services are not online, you might encounter problems when administering Solaris Volume Manager.
To check the SMF services associated with Solaris Volume Manager, use the following form of the svcs command:
# svcs -a |egrep "md|meta" disabled 12:05:45 svc:/network/rpc/mdcomm:default disabled 12:05:45 svc:/network/rpc/metamed:default disabled 12:05:45 svc:/network/rpc/metamh:default online 12:05:39 svc:/system/metainit:default online 12:05:46 svc:/network/rpc/meta:default online 12:05:48 svc:/system/fmd:default online 12:05:51 svc:/system/mdmonitor:default
If the Solaris Volume Manager configuration consists of a local set only, then these services should be online:
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If the Solaris Volume Manager configuration includes disk sets, then these additional services should be online:
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If the Solaris Volume Manager includes multi-node disk sets, then this service should be online in addition to the other services already mentioned:
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For more information on SMF, see Chapter 18, Managing Services (Overview), in Oracle Solaris Administration: Basic Administration.