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About This Guide
This guide provides information about how to manage storage devices on a SUSE
Enterprise Server 10 Support Pack 3 server. The guide also contains information on using the
Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) 2.5.5 or later to manage devices. Related storage
administration issues are also covered as noted below.
Chapter 1, "Overview of EVMS," on page 11
Chapter 2, "Using EVMS to Manage Devices," on page 15
Chapter 3, "Using UUIDs to Mount Devices," on page 31
Chapter 4, "Managing EVMS Devices," on page 35
Chapter 5, "Managing Multipath I/O for Devices," on page 43
Chapter 6, "Managing Software RAIDs with EVMS," on page 77
Chapter 7, "Managing Software RAIDs 6 and 10 with mdadm," on page 99
Chapter 8, "Resizing Software RAID Arrays with mdadm," on page 109
Chapter 9, "Installing and Managing DRBD Services," on page 119
Chapter 10, "Troubleshooting Storage Issues," on page 125
Audience
This guide is intended for system administrators.
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Documentation Updates
For the most recent version of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Storage Administration Guide
for EVMS, visit the
Novell Documentation Web site for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (http://
www.novell.com/documentation/sles10).
Additional Documentation
For information about managing storage with the Linux Volume Manager (LVM), see the
Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation and Administration Guide (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/sles10).
For information about iSNS (Internet Storage Name Service), see
documentation/sles10/sles_admin/index.html?page=/documentation/sles10/sles_admin/data/
cha_isns.html)
in the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation and Administration Guide (http:/
/www.novell.com/documentation/sles10).
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