Managing Disk Volumes - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Manual

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Managing Disk Volumes

This chapter describes redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concepts, how
to manage disk volumes, and how to configure hardware mirroring using the SAS
controller.
This chapter contains the following sections:
"About Disk Volumes" on page 118
"About Volume Management Software" on page 118
"About RAID Technology" on page 120
"About Hardware Disk Mirroring" on page 122
"About Physical Disk Slot Numbers, Physical Device Names, and Logical Device
Names" on page 123
"Creating a Hardware Disk Mirror" on page 124
"Creating a Hardware Mirrored Volume of the Default Boot Device" on page 126
"Creating a Hardware Striped Volume" on page 128
"Configuring and Labeling a Hardware RAID Volume for Use in the Solaris
Operating System" on page 129
"Deleting a Hardware Disk Mirror" on page 132
"Performing a Mirrored Disk Hot-Plug Operation" on page 134
"Performing a Nonmirrored Disk Hot-Plug Operation" on page 136
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