Preface

The Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide explains how to use Solaris^TM Volume Manager to manage your system's storage needs. Solaris Volume Manager enables you to create, modify, and use RAID-0 (concatenation and stripe) volumes, RAID-1 (mirror) volumes,

Note - This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC^® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC^® , SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

• x86 refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.

• x64 points out specific 64-bit information about AMD64 or EM64T systems.

• 32-bit x86 points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.

For supported systems, see the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List.