When using Solaris Volume Manager you have to remember that things are "event driven", so your steps would be basically as follows.
Present the physical storage to the server - this is the work your SAN team would do.
Introduce the physical devices to the system - done by the systems admin.
If required use format to slice the disk - again done by the systems admin.
Use SVM to create the devices - this assumes that the state database has already been created.
Using the metainit command, create the required devices.
Mount the devices as required.
When it comes to creating devices, there are a number of guidelines that your administrators should advise you on - where you have SAN attached storage or a NAS, let the SAN or the NAS take care of resilience. I would advise that mirroring two SAN or NAS devices would have performance indications for the system.
Where you have internal disk on the server, it makes sense to mirror the physical devices - on SAN or NAS it does not (Unless you have gone for a very cheap solution).
Below is a metastat from one of my systems showing how convoluted the disk planning can become, so it is important to understand what is required before you start and plan accordingly.
Listed above are all the disks on the system, here is the detail on d50 which is an internal slice mirrored to another internal slice.
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The correct process here would be to create d51 using the metainit command, you would then create d52 again using the metainit command.
Now you would create d50 using the metainit command on d51 followed by the metattach of d52 as below.
Have you done any of the preparation for the creation of these devices yet, if so what have you done.
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Gull04
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