Chapter 8: Administering virtual disks

Table of contents

• Chapter 8: Administering virtual disks
  • About virtual disks
    • Disk arrays and data striping
    • Hot spares
    • Clusters
    • RAID
    • Redundancy and parity
    • Virtual disk types
    • How configuration information is stored
  • Planning your system layout with virtual disks
    • Application and filesystem requirements
    • Performance and reliability requirements
  • The Virtual Disk Manager interface
  • Adding virtual disks
    • Allocating or modifying disk pieces
    • Creating nested virtual disks
    • Adding a configuration backup
    • Mirroring boot, swap, and root onto virtual disks
    • Adding hot spares to virtual disks
    • Setting virtual disk defaults
    • Creating additional virtual disk nodes
    • Creating a RAID 10 virtual disk array
    • Creating a RAID 53 virtual disk array
  • Modifying virtual disks
    • Examining the current configuration
  • Deleting virtual disks
  • Creating filesystems on virtual disks
  • Converting filesystems to virtual disks
  • Tuning the performance of virtual disks
    • Monitoring virtual disk performance
  • Troubleshooting virtual disks
    • Disabling and re-enabling virtual disks
    • Forcing virtual disks online
    • Checking and restoring parity data
    • Repairing a failed drive
    • Possible problems