11-14-2010
Disksuite question
Hello all,
I have a Solaris Disksuite question :-
I will be adding 4 new drives to an E250 server and need will be configuring 2 striped volumes each consisting 2 new disks with SVM. In the end i will have 2 volumes each of 72gb. So in effect i will have 1 volume called D7 and another volume called D8 consisting of 2 drives each.
Question is, can i mirror these volumes with each other ?
I have had a look around to find the answer and although i will be using SVM to create the 2 striped volumes, can i also use SVM to mirror these volumes with each other, or do i need to use RAID 5.
Many thanks for your response.
Last edited by commandline; 11-14-2010 at 11:04 AM..
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VGREDUCE(8) System Manager's Manual VGREDUCE(8)
NAME
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SYNOPSIS
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calVolumePath...]
DESCRIPTION
vgreduce allows you to remove one or more unused physical volumes from a volume group.
OPTIONS
See lvm for common options.
-a, --all
Removes all empty physical volumes if none are given on command line.
--removemissing
Removes all missing physical volumes from the volume group, if there are no logical volumes allocated on those. This resumes normal
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