Creating Disk Sets in a Cluster

This section describes how to create disk sets for a cluster configuration. When you create a Solaris Volume Manager disk set in an Oracle Solaris Cluster environment, the disk set is automatically registered with the Oracle Solaris Cluster software as a device group of type svm. To create or delete an svm device group, you must use Solaris Volume Manager commands and utilities to create or delete the underlying disk set of the device group.

The following table lists the tasks that you perform to create disk sets. Complete the procedures in the order that is indicated.

Table 4-2 Task Map: Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Disk Sets

Task Instructions

Create disk sets by using the metaset command.

How to Create a Disk Set

Add drives to the disk sets.

How to Add Drives to a Disk Set

(Optional) Repartition drives in a disk set to allocate space to different slices.

How to Repartition Drives in a Disk Set

List DID pseudo-driver mappings and define volumes in the /etc/lvm/md.tab files.

How to Create an md.tab File

Initialize the md.tab files.

How to Activate Volumes