Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

Copyright

  Preface

  1.  Getting Started with Solaris Volume Manager

  2.  Storage Management Concepts

  3.  Solaris Volume Manager Overview

  4.  Configuring and Using Solaris Volume Manager (Scenario)

  5.  State Database (Overview)

  6.  State Database (Tasks)

  7.  RAID 0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Overview)

  8.  RAID 0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Tasks)

  9.  RAID 1 (Mirror) Volumes (Overview)

  10.  RAID 1 (Mirror) Volumes (Tasks)

RAID 1 Volumes (Task Map)

Creating a RAID 1 Volume

How to Create a RAID 1 Volume From Unused Slices

How to Create a RAID 1 Volume From a File System

Mirroring root (/) Special Considerations

How to Record the Path to the Alternate Boot Device

Booting From Alternate Boot Devices

Working with Submirrors

How to Attach a Submirror

How to Detach a Submirror

How to Place a Submirror Offline and Online

How to Enable a Slice in a Submirror

Maintaining RAID 1 Volumes

How to Check the Status of Mirrors and Submirrors

How to Change RAID 1 Volume Options

How to Expand a RAID 1 Volume

Responding to RAID 1 Volume Component Failures

How to Replace a Slice in a Submirror

How to Replace a Submirror

Removing RAID 1 Volumes (Unmirroring)

How to Unmirror a File System

How to Unmirror a File System That Cannot Be Unmounted

Using a Mirror to Back Up Data

How to Use a RAID 1 Volume to Make an Online Backup

  11.  Soft Partitions (Overview)

  12.  Soft Partitions (Tasks)

  13.  RAID 5 Volumes (Overview)

  14.  RAID 5 Volumes (Tasks)

  15.  Hot Spare Pools (Overview)

  16.  Hot Spare Pools (Tasks)

  17.  Transactional Volumes (Overview)

  18.  Transactional Volumes (Tasks)

  19.  Disk Sets (Overview)

  20.  Disk Sets (Tasks)

  21.  Maintaining Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)

  22.  Best Practices for Solaris Volume Manager

  23.  Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)

  24.  Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager

  A.  Important Solaris Volume Manager Files

  B.  Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference

  C.  Solaris Volume Manager CIM/WBEM API

  Index