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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
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)
Top-Down Volume Creation (Task Map)
Creating Volumes Automatically
Analyzing Volume Creation by Specifying Output Verbosity
How to Create RAID-1 (mirror) Volumes Using the metassist Command
Working With File-Based Data Using the metassist Command
Creating a Command File (Shell Script) Using the metassist Command
How to Create a Command File (Shell Script) Using the metassist Command
Creating a Volume With a Saved Shell Script Created by the metassist Command
How to Execute a Saved metassist Command Shell Script
Creating a Volume Configuration File With the metassist Command
How to Create a Volume Configuration File Using the metassist Command
Changing the Default Behavior of the metassist Command
Changing the Volume Defaults File
24. Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)
25. Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)
A. Important Solaris Volume Manager Files
B. Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference
Creating volumes and volume configurations automatically using the metassist command requires that you have a functional Solaris Volume Manager configuration. Before you begin, you should have the following:
Superuser access, or be able to assume an equivalent role-based access control (RBAC) role. See Becoming Superuser (root) or Assuming a Role in Oracle Solaris Administration: Basic Administration for more information.
State database replicas, distributed appropriately for your system. See About the Solaris Volume Manager State Database and Replicas for more information about state database replicas.
Available disks for creating volumes. The metassist command uses disk sets to help manage storage. Completely unused disks (or an existing disk set) must be available to create new volumes using the metassist command. See Determining Which Disks Are Available for Top-Down Volume Creation for more information about disk availability.
In addition to these minimum requirements, do not disable the Solaris Volume Manager RPC daemons (rpc.metad, rpc.metamhd, and rpc.metamedd) in the /etc/inetd.conf file. These daemons are configured to start by default. They must remain enabled to allow Solaris Volume Manager to use shared disk sets.