Chapter 3. Solaris Volume Manager Overview

Table of Contents

What's New in Solaris Volume Manager
Support for Descriptive Names
Introduction to Solaris Volume Manager
How Solaris Volume Manager Manages Storage
How to Administer Solaris Volume Manager
Solaris Volume Manager Requirements
Overview of Solaris Volume Manager Components
Overview of Volumes
State Database and State Database Replicas
Hot Spare Pools
Disk Sets
Solaris Volume Manager Configuration Guidelines
General Guidelines
File System Guidelines
Overview of Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components
Prerequisites for Creating Solaris Volume Manager Components
Overview of Multi-Terabyte Support in Solaris Volume Manager
Large Volume Support Limitations
Using Large Volumes
Upgrading to Solaris Volume Manager

What's New in Solaris Volume Manager

This section describes new features for working with Solaris Volume Manager in this Solaris release.

For a complete listing of new Solaris features and a description of Solaris releases, see What’s New in Solaris Express .

Support for Descriptive Names

Solaris Express 4/06: Solaris Volume Manager has been enhanced to include the use of descriptive names for both volumes and hot spare pools. System administrators can now name volumes and hot spare pools by using any name that follows the naming guidelines.

A new option has been added to the metastat command to assist in identifying volumes and hot spare pools with descriptive names. The metastat D command lists all of the volumes and hot spare pools with descriptive names. This information is useful if it becomes necessary to move your storage to a previous release of the Solaris OS that does not support the use of descriptive names.

For more information, see Volume Names.