Solstice DiskSuite 4.1 Reference

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Preface
About This Book
Who Should Use This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Related Books
What Typographic Changes Mean
Shell Prompts in Command Examples

1 : Introduction to DiskSuite
What Does DiskSuite Do?
How Does DiskSuite Manage Disks?
DiskSuite Tool
Command Line Interface
Overview of DiskSuite Objects
Metadevices
Metadevice State Database and State Database Replicas
Hot Spare Pools
Metadevice and Disk Space Expansion
System and Startup Files
Disksets

2 : Metadevices
Simple Metadevices
Mirrors
RAID5 Metadevices
UFS Logging or Trans Metadevices

3 : Hot Spare Pools
Overview of Hot Spare Pools and Hot Spares
Hot Spares
Hot Spare Pools
Example - Hot Spare Pool
Administering Hot Spare Pools

4 : DiskSuite Tool
Overview of DiskSuite Tool
Screen Descriptions for DiskSuite Tool
Tool Registry
Event Notification

5 : Disksets
What Do Disksets Do?
How Does DiskSuite Manage Disksets?
Administering Disksets

6 : The md.tab and md.cf Files
Overview of the md.tab File
Creating Initial State Database Replicas in the md.tab File
Creating a Striped Metadevice in the md.tab File
Creating a Concatenated Metadevice in the md.tab File
Creating a Concatenated Stripe in the md.tab File
Creating a Mirror in the md.tab File
Creating a Trans Metadevice in the md.tab File
Creating a RAID5 Metadevice in the md.tab File
Creating a Hot Spare Pool in the md.tab File
Overview of the md.cf File

7 : Configuration Guidelines
Introduction
Configuration Planning Overview
Configuration Planning Guidelines
RAID5 Metadevices and Striped Metadevices
Optimizing for Random I/O and Sequential I/O
Striping Trade-offs
Logging Device Trade-offs
State Database Replicas

A : DiskSuite Error Messages
Introduction
DiskSuite Tool Messages
DiskSuite Command Line Messages

B : Upgrading to Other Solaris Versions
Introduction
Upgrading Solaris With Solstice DiskSuite

Glossary

Part No: 802-6724-10

Revision A, October 1996