1. Installing and Configuring an Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.4 Environment
  2. Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software
  3. Creating Disk Sets in a Cluster
  4. Adding Drives to a Disk Set

Adding Drives to a Disk Set

When you add a drive to a disk set, the volume management software repartitions the drive so that the state database for the disk set can be placed on the drive.

  • A small portion of each drive is reserved for use by Solaris Volume Manager software. In Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) labeled devices, slice 6 is used. The remainder of the space on each drive is placed into slice 0.

  • Drives are repartitioned when they are added to the disk set only if the target slice is not configured correctly.

  • Any existing data on the drives is lost by the repartitioning.

  • If the target slice starts at cylinder 0, and the drive partition is large enough to contain a state database replica, the drive is not repartitioned.