Document Information
Preface
1. Getting Started With Solaris Volume Manager
2. Storage Management Concepts
3. Solaris Volume Manager Overview
4. Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster (Overview)
5. Configuring and Using Solaris Volume Manager (Scenario)
6. State Database (Overview)
7. State Database (Tasks)
8. RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Overview)
9. RAID-0 (Stripe and Concatenation) Volumes (Tasks)
10. RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Overview)
11. RAID-1 (Mirror) Volumes (Tasks)
12. Soft Partitions (Overview)
13. Soft Partitions (Tasks)
14. RAID-5 Volumes (Overview)
15. RAID-5 Volumes (Tasks)
16. Hot Spare Pools (Overview)
17. Hot Spare Pools (Tasks)
18. Disk Sets (Overview)
19. Disk Sets (Tasks)
20. 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
How to Rename a Volume
Working With Configuration Files
How to Create Configuration Files
How to Initialize Solaris Volume Manager From a Configuration File
Changing Solaris Volume Manager Default Values
Expanding a File System Using the growfs Command
How to Expand a File System
Overview of Replacing and Enabling Components in RAID-1 and RAID-5 Volumes
21. Best Practices for Solaris Volume Manager
22. Top-Down Volume Creation (Overview)
23. Top-Down Volume Creation (Tasks)
24. Monitoring and Error Reporting (Tasks)
25. Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)
A. Important Solaris Volume Manager Files
B. Solaris Volume Manager Quick Reference
C. Solaris Volume Manager CIM/WBEM API
Index
The following task map identifies the procedures that are needed to maintain Solaris Volume Manager.
Task
Description
For Instructions
View the Solaris Volume Manager configuration
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metastat command to view the system configuration.
Rename a volume
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metarename command to rename a volume.
Create configuration files
Use the metastat -p command and the metadb command to create configuration files.
Initialize Solaris Volume Manager from configuration files
Use the metainit command to initialize Solaris Volume Manager from configuration files.
Expand a file system
Use the growfs command to expand a file system.
Enable components
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metareplace command to enable components.
Enabling a Component
Replace components
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metareplace command to replace components.
Replacing a Component With Another Available Component