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)
Soft Partitions (Task Map)
Creating Soft Partitions
How to Create a Soft Partition
Maintaining Soft Partitions
How to Check the Status of a Soft Partition
How to Expand a Soft Partition
How to Remove a Soft Partition
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)
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 manage Solaris Volume Manager soft partitions.
Task
Description
For Instructions
Create soft partitions
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metainit command to create soft partitions.
Check the status of soft partitions
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metastat command to check the status of soft partitions.
Expand soft partitions
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metattach command to expand soft partitions.
Remove soft partitions
Use the Solaris Volume Manager GUI or the metaclear command to remove soft partitions.