Solstice DiskSuite 4.1 User's Guide

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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

Finding Solstice DiskSuite 4. 1 Information
Getting Started With DiskSuite
DiskSuite Task Summary

1 : Getting Started
Introduction
Planning Your Configuration
Creating Initial State Database Replicas
Where to Go From Here

2 : Creating DiskSuite Objects
Overview of Creating DiskSuite Objects
Creating Additional State Database Replicas
Creating Stripes and Concatenations
Creating Mirrors
Creating RAID5 Metadevices
Creating Trans Metadevices
Creating Hot Spare Pools
Creating Disksets
Creating DiskSuite Objects in a Diskset
Creating File Systems on Metadevices

3 : Maintaining DiskSuite Objects
Overview of Maintaining DiskSuite Objects
Checking Status of DiskSuite Objects
Replacing and Enabling Objects
Repairing Trans Metadevice Problems
Expanding Slices and Metadevices
Growing a File System
Renaming Metadevices
Working With Mirrors
Working With Disksets

4 : Changing DiskSuite Objects
Overview of Changing DiskSuite Objects
Working With the DiskSuite Configuration
Modifying State Database Replicas
Changing Mirror Options
Sharing a Logging Device Among File Systems

5 : Removing DiskSuite Objects
Overview of Removing DiskSuite Objects
Removing State Database Replicas
Removing Stripes and Concatenations
Removing Mirrors
Removing RAID5 Metadevices
Removing Trans Metadevices
Removing Hot Spares and Hot Spare Pools
Removing Disksets

6 : Managing the System
Overview of Managing the System
Working With the Graphical View of the SPARCstorage Array
Administering the SPARCstorage Array
Monitoring and Graphing Performance
Integrating SunNet Manager With DiskSuite
Integrating SNMP Alerts With DiskSuite
Integrating Storage Manager With DiskSuite

7 : Troubleshooting the System
Overview of Troubleshooting the System
Recovering the DiskSuite Configuration
Changing DiskSuite Defaults
Checking For Errors
Boot Problems
Replacing SCSI Disks
Working With SPARCstorage Arrays
Using the SPARCstorage Array as a System Disk

8 : Tips and Tricks
State Database Replicas and Trans Metadevices
DiskSuite and Prestoserve
DiskSuite Configuration Guidelines
Working With Disk Drives
Trans Metadevices (UFS Logging) and Disk Quotas
Using DiskSuite Tool
Metadevice Naming Conventions
Metadevice Name Switching
Working With Stripes
Working With Mirrors
Hot Spares
Working With Disksets

A : Using Storage Manager
Storage Manager's Load Context Property Book
File System Manager Overview
File System Manager's Main Window
File System Manager Property Book
Managing File Systems, Mount Points, and Directories With File System Manager
Disk Manager Overview
Disk Manager's Main Window
Disk Manager Property Book
Managing Disks With Disk Manager

Part No.: 802-4215-10

Revision A, October 1996