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Operating Systems Solaris Please help Disk Suite on Solaris 8 FS full!!! Post 302181289 by NewSolarisAdmin on Wednesday 2nd of April 2008 02:35:21 PM
Old 04-02-2008
OK here is where I am:

I get onsite today finaly and I find the disks need to be installed into a D2 SCSI array...

It is a 280r server with a D2 array hanging off it.

The file system they need bigger is on internal disks using SDS as management. it is mirrored (d7) with 2 subs (d17, d27), one slice on each internal disk they use slice 7 hence the naming convention.

The array has 4 HDs in it and they are recognized by metastat to have a concatenated stripe running across all of them called d30 that has about 136 G all together.

The array will hold up to 12 drives. So 8 more HDs can be added.

I have enough 18.2 G sun HDs to fill it.

This is what I want to do to start:

1. add 4 drives to the array.

2. format them to put all space available on slice 6 of the drives (relatively 18 G per HD)

3. use SDS to make a new metadevice, call it d6.

3. make sub mirrors ... ... .. . This is where I get lost.

How do I make a mirrored metadevice using more than 2 drives?

I know I can do it like before and have 2x the redundancy/speed or whatever but I need to end up with a 36 G mirrored file system with 2 submirriors, NOT an 18 G mirrored twice over file system with 4 submirrors.....

Can someone please help me with the steps from here? The HDs will be:
c1t4d0
c1t5d0
c1t6d0
c1t7d0

Any help will be appreciated, thank you in advance.
Last edited by NewSolarisAdmin; 04-02-2008 at 03:47 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

install-solaris

install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       install-solaris

       install-solaris	invokes  the  Solaris  Install	program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
       install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.

       The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:

       For SPARC machines:

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       384 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       For x86 machines:

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       512 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number  of  fea-
       tures available.

       install-solaris	exists	only  on  the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the  for more
       details.

       install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
       installation media. Refer to the  for disk space requirements.

       Refer to the  for more information on the various menus and selections.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcdrom  (Solaris instal-  |
       |			     |lation media)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.

								    23 Sep 2005 					       install-solaris(1M)
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