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Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

Index
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Book Information
Preface
- Who Should Use This Book
- How This Book Is Organized
- Related Books
- Accessing Sun Documentation Online
- Typographic Conventions
- Shell Prompts in Command Examples
1. Getting Started with Solaris Volume Manager
- Getting Started With Solaris Volume Manager
2. Storage Management Concepts
- Introduction to Storage Management
- Configuration Planning Guidelines
- Performance Issues
- Optimizing for Random I/O and Sequential I/O
3. Solaris Volume Manager Overview
- What Does Solaris Volume Manager Do?
- Solaris Volume Manager Requirements
- Overview of Solaris Volume Manager Components
- Solaris Volume Manager Configuration Guidelines
- Overview of Creating Solaris Volume Manager Elements
4. Configuring and Using Solaris Volume Manager (Scenario)
- Background
- Complete Solaris Volume Manager Configuration
5. State Database (Overview)
- About the Solaris Volume Manager State Database and Replicas
- Understanding the Majority Consensus Algorithm
- Background Information for Defining State Database Replicas
- Handling State Database Replica Errors
- Scenario—State Database Replicas
6. State Database (Tasks)
- State Database Replicas (Task Map)
- Creating State Database Replicas
  - How to Create State Database Replicas
- Maintaining State Database Replicas
  - How to Check the Status of State Database Replicas
  - How to Delete State Database Replicas
7. RAID 0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Overview)
- Overview of RAID 0 Volumes
- Background Information for Creating RAID 0 Volumes
- Scenario—RAID 0 Volumes
8. RAID 0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Tasks)
- RAID 0 Volumes (Task Map)
- Creating RAID 0 (Stripe) Volumes
  - How to Create a RAID 0 (Stripe) Volume
- Creating RAID 0 (Concatenation) Volumes
  - How to Create a RAID 0 (Concatenation) Volume
- Expanding Storage Space
  - How to Expand Space for Existing Data
  - How to Expand an Existing RAID 0 Volume
- Removing a Volume
  - How to Remove a Volume
9. RAID 1 (Mirror) Volumes (Overview)
- Overview of RAID 1 (Mirror) Volumes
- RAID 1 Volume (Mirror) Resynchronization
- Background Information for RAID 1 Volumes
- How Booting Into Single-User Mode Affects RAID 1 Volumes
- Scenario—RAID 1 Volumes (Mirrors)
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
- Working with Submirrors
- Maintaining RAID 1 Volumes
- 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)
- Overview of Soft Partitions
- Background Information About Soft Partitions
- Scenario—Soft Partitions
12. Soft Partitions (Tasks)
- Soft Partitions (Task Map)
- Creating Soft Partitions
  - How to Create a Soft Partition
- Maintaining Soft Partitions
13. RAID 5 Volumes (Overview)
- Overview of RAID 5 Volumes
- Background Information for Creating RAID 5 Volumes
- Overview of Replacing and Enabling Slices in RAID 5 Volumes
- Scenario—RAID 5 Volumes
14. RAID 5 Volumes (Tasks)
- RAID 5 Volumes (Task Map)
- Creating RAID 5 Volumes
  - How to Create a RAID 5 Volume
- Maintaining RAID 5 Volumes
15. Hot Spare Pools (Overview)
- Overview of Hot Spares and Hot Spare Pools
- Administering Hot Spare Pools
- Scenario—Hot Spares
16. Hot Spare Pools (Tasks)
- Hot Spare Pools (Task Map)
- Creating a Hot Spare Pool
  - How to Create a Hot Spare Pool
  - How to Add Additional Slices to a Hot Spare Pool
- Associating a Hot Spare Pool With Volumes
  - How to Associate a Hot Spare Pool With a Volume
  - How to Change the Associated Hot Spare Pool
- Maintaining Hot Spare Pools
17. Transactional Volumes (Overview)
- About File System Logging
- Background Information for Transactional Volumes
- Scenario—Transactional Volumes
18. Transactional Volumes (Tasks)
- Transactional Volumes (Task Map)
- Creating Transactional Volumes
  - How to Create a Transactional Volume
- Converting Transactional Volumes to UFS Logging
- Maintaining Transactional Volumes
- Sharing Log Devices
  - How to Share a Log Device Among File Systems
- Recovering Transactional Volumes When Errors Occur
  - How to Recover a Transactional Volume With a Panic
  - How to Recover a Transactional Volume With Hard Errors
19. Disk Sets (Overview)
- What Do Disk Sets Do?
- How Does Solaris Volume Manager Manage Disk Sets?
- Background Information for Disk Sets
- Administering Disk Sets
- Scenario—Disk Sets
20. Disk Sets (Tasks)
- Disk Sets (Task Map)
- Creating Disk Sets
  - How to Create a Disk Set
- Expanding Disk Sets
- Maintaining Disk Sets
21. Maintaining Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)
- Solaris Volume Manager Maintenance (Task Map)
- Viewing the Solaris Volume Manager Configuration
  - How to View the Solaris Volume Manager Volume Configuration
- Renaming Volumes
- Working with Configuration Files
  - How to Create Configuration Files
  - How to Initialize Solaris Volume Manager from a Configuration File
- Changing Solaris Volume Manager Defaults
  - How to Increase the Number of Default Volumes
  - How to Increase the Number of Default Disk Sets
- Growing a File System
  - Background Information for Expanding Slices and Volumes
  - How to Grow a File System
- Overview of Replacing and Enabling Components in RAID 1 and RAID 5 Volumes
22. Best Practices for Solaris Volume Manager
- Deploying Small Servers
- Using Solaris Volume Manager With Networked Storage Devices
23. Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)
- Solaris Volume Manager Monitoring and Reporting (Task Map)
- Setting the mdmonitord Command for Periodic Error Checking
- Solaris Volume Manager SNMP Agent Overview
- Configuring the Solaris Volume Manager SNMP Agent
- Solaris Volume Manager SNMP Agent Limitations
- Monitoring Solaris Volume Manager with a cron Job
  - How to Automate Checking for Errors in Volumes
24. Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager
- Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Task Map)
- Overview of Troubleshooting the System
- General Troubleshooting Approach
- Replacing Disks
  - How to Replace a Failed Disk
- Boot Problems
- Recovering From State Database Replica Failures
  - How to Recover From Insufficient State Database Replicas
- Repairing Transactional Volumes
- Recovering From Soft Partition Problems
- Recovering Configuration From a Different System
A. Important Solaris Volume Manager Files
- System Files and Startup Files
- Manually Configured Files
B. Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference
- Command Line Reference
C. Solaris Volume Manager CIM/WBEM API
- Managing Solaris Volume Manager