Index

A

adding a host to a disk set
adding disks to a disk set
adding hot spares
administering disk sets
application based recovery
automatic disk partitioning
autotake disk set

B

boot problems
booting into single-user mode

C

changing default values
checking status of a disk set
component, definition of
concatenated stripe
definition
RAID–0 (concatenated stripe) volume
removing
concatenation
creating
RAID–0 (concatenation) volume
definition
RAID–0 (concatenation) volume
example with three slices
expanding
expanding UFS file system
removing
usage
concatenation volume, RAID–0 (concatenation) volume
configuration, viewing
configuration file, creating
configuration planning
guidelines
overview
trade-offs
creating a disk set
creating components in a disk set
creating configuration files
cron command

D

deleting a disk set
deleting a host from a disk set
deleting disks from a disk set
device ID, formats of
directed mirror reads
disk set
adding disks to
multi-owner disk set
adding host to
multi-owner disk set
administering
multi-owner disk set
asynchronous shared storage
multi-owner disk set
automatic disk partitioning
multi-owner disk set
autotake
multi-owner disk set
checking status
multi-owner disk set
creating
multi-owner disk set
creating components
multi-owner disk set
definition
multi-owner disk set
deleting a disk set
multi-owner disk set
deleting a host from a disk set
multi-owner disk set
deleting disks
multi-owner disk set
example with two shared disk sets
multi-owner disk set
guidelines
multi-owner disk set
importing
multi-owner disk set
local
multi-owner disk set
multi-owner
multi-owner disk set
named
naming conventions
releasing
reserving
scenario
shared
taking
usage
disk sets
importing
maximum number supported
DiskSuite Tool, graphical interface

E

enabling a slice in a RAID-5 volume
enabling a slice in a submirror
Enhanced Storage, graphical interface
error checking
errors, checking for using a script
/etc/lvm/md.cf file
/etc/lvm/mddb.cf file
/etc/rc2.d/S95lvm.sync file
/etc/rcS.d/S35lvm.init file
/etc/vfstab file
recovering from improper entries
exchanging volume names

F

failover configuration
file system
expanding
expanding by creating a concatenation
expansion overview
guidelines
unmirroring
first read policy
fmthard command
format command

G

general performance guidelines
geometric read policy
graphical interface, overview
growfs command
growfs command
GUI, sample

H

hot spare
adding to a hot spare pool
conceptual overview
definition
enabling
how hot spares work with Solaris Volume Manager
replacing in a hot spare pool
hot spare pool
adding slices to
associating
associating with a volume
basic operation
changing association
changing association of
checking status
conceptual overview
creating
definition
deleting hot spare
example with mirror
maintaining
replacing hot spare
states

I

I/O
importing a disk set
install program, system recovery
interfaces, Solaris Volume Manager interfaces
interlace, specifying
interlace value

K

/kernel/drv/md.conf file

L

local disk set
lockfs command

M

majority consensus algorithm
master node
md.cf file
recovering a Solaris Volume Manager configuration
md.tab file
overview
mdmonitord command
metaclear command
metaclear command
metadb command
metadb command
metadb command, replacing a failed disk and
metadetach command
metadetach command
metadevadm command
replacing a failed disk and
metadevice, volume
metahs command
adding slices to a hot spare pool
deleting hot spare
enabling
replacing a failed disk and
replacing hot spare
metaimport command
metainit command
metainit command
metainit command, creating hot spare pool
metaoffline command
metaoffline command
metaonline command
metaparam command
metaparam command
metaparam command
associating hot spare pool with volume
changing association of hot spare pool
metarecover command
replacing a failed disk and
metarename command
metarename command
metareplace command
metareplace command
metareplace command, replacing a failed disk and
metaroot command
metaset command
adding a host to a disk set
adding disks to a disk set
checking status of a disk set
creating a disk set
deleting a disk set
deleting a host from a disk set
deleting disks from a disk set
releasing a disk set
taking a disk set
metastat command
metastat command
metasync command
metattach
task
metattach command
metattach command
attach RAID-5 component
attach submirror
mirror
and online backup
canceling
resuming
attaching a submirror
canceling
resuming
changing options
canceling
resuming
creating
canceling
resuming
definition
canceling
resuming
example with two submirrors
canceling
resuming
expanding
canceling
resuming
replacing and enabling components
canceling
resuming
resynchronization
canceling
resuming
sample status output
two-way mirror
updating the size of
mirroring
file system
SPARC
x86
file system that can be unmounted
SPARC
x86
read and write performance
SPARC
x86
root (/), /usr, and swap
SPARC
x86
root file system
SPARC
x86
multi-owner disk set
defined
device id support
importing
master node
multi-owner disk sets
RAID-1 volumes
tasks

N

named disk set

O

Oracle Real Application Clusters

P

parallel access, definition of
parallel write policy
pass number
and read-only mirror
defined
prtconf command, viewing device IDs

R

RAID, levels supported in Solaris Volume Manager
RAID-0 (stripe) Volume, example with three slices
RAID-0+1
RAID-0 volume
definition
usage
RAID-1+0
RAID-1 Volume
booting into single-user mode
RAID-1 volume
creating
information for replacing and enabling components
maintenance vs. last erred
RAID-1 Volume
mirror
options
pass number
RAID-0+1
RAID-1+0
read-and-write policies
RAID-1 volume
replacing and enabling components
RAID-1 Volume
submirror
RAID-5 volume
and interlace
checking status of
creating
definition
enabling a component
enabling a failed slice
example with an expanded device
example with four disks
expanding
guidelines
information for replacing and enabling components
maintenance vs. last erred
overview
parity calculations
parity information
replacing a component
replacing a failed slice
replacing and enabling components
requirements for
resynchronizing slices
slice states
states
tasks
RAID–0 (concatenated stripe) volume
example with three stripes
interlace value for
RAID–0 (concatenation) volume, information for creating
RAID–0 (stripe) volume
information for creating
RAID–0 volume
guidelines
types of
random I/O
releasing a disk set
renaming volumes
repartitioning a disk
replica
reserving a disk set
resynchronization
canceling
full
optimized
partial
resuming
round-robin read policy

S

SCSI disk
replacing
sequential I/O
serial write policy
Service Management Facility (SMF), SMF
shared disk set
simple volume, definition
slices, expanding
small servers, overview of deploying
SMF
Solaris Volume Manager services
upgrading Solaris Volume Manager and
soft partition
creating
deleting
recovering configuration for
removing
soft partitions
checking status of
definition
expanding
guidelines
locations
maintaining
tasks
Solaris Volume Manager
configuration guidelines
networked storage devices and
Oracle Real Applications Clusters and
recovering the configuration
Sun Cluster and
Solaris Volume Manager elements, overview
Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster
application based recovery
configuration
data management and recovery
directed mirror reads
optimized resynchronization
software components
timeouts
Solaris Volume Manager interfaces
command line
sample GUI
Solaris Management Console
state database
conceptual overview
corrupt
definition
state database replica
criteria for disk set
size of
state database replicas
adding larger replicas
basic operation
creating multiple on a single slice
definition
errors
location
minimum number
two-disk configuration
usage
status
stripe
creating
RAID–0 (stripe) volume
definition
RAID–0 (stripe) volume
expanding
removing
stripe volume, RAID–0 (stripe) volume
striping, definition
submirror
attaching
detaching
enabling a failed slice
operation while offline
replacing a failed slice
replacing entire
Sun Cluster
svc-mdmonitor script
swap, unmirroring
system files
system recovery from install program

T

taking a disk set
topdown volume creation
defaults
RAID 1 volume, creating
shell script
volume configuration file
troubleshooting
boot problems
device ID discrepancies
general guidelines
importing a disk set
improper /etc/vfstab file entries
metaimport command
recovering from disk movement problems
replacing a failed disk

V

/var/adm/messages file
replacing a failed disk
viewing Solaris Volume Manager configuration
volume
conceptual overview
definition
exchanging name
expanding disk space
renaming
types
uses
using file system commands on
virtual disk
volume name switching
volumes, maximum number supported