Appendix B

Installing and Configuring Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Software

Install and configure your local and multihost disks for Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager software by using the procedures in this appendix, along with the planning information in Planning Volume Management. See your Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager documentation for additional details.

The following procedures are in this appendix.

• How to Install Solstice DiskSuite Software

• How to Set the Number of Metadevice or Volume Names and Disksets

• How to Create State Database Replicas

• How to Mirror the Root (/) File System

• How to Mirror the Global Namespace

• How to Mirror File Systems Other Than Root (/) That Cannot Be Unmounted

• How to Mirror File Systems That Can Be Unmounted

• How to Create a Diskset

• How to Add Disk Drives to a Diskset

• How to Repartition Disk Drives in a Diskset

• How to Create an md.tab File

• How to Activate Metadevices or Volumes

• How to Add Mediator Hosts

• How to Check the Status of Mediator Data

• How to Fix Bad Mediator Data

Installing and Configuring Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Software

Before you begin, have available the following information.

• Mappings of your storage disk drives.

• The following completed configuration planning worksheets. See Planning Volume Management for planning guidelines.

  • Local File System Layout Worksheet

  • Disk Device Group Configurations Worksheet

  • Volume Manager Configurations Worksheet

  • Metadevices Worksheet (Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager)

The following table lists the tasks that you perform to install and configure Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager software for Sun Cluster configurations. You can skip certain procedures in the following conditions:

• If you used SunPlex Manager to install Solstice DiskSuite software (Solaris 8), the procedures How to Install Solstice DiskSuite Software through How to Create State Database Replicas are already completed. Go to Mirroring the Root Disk or How to Create a Diskset to continue to configure Solstice DiskSuite software.

• If you installed Solaris 9 software, Solaris Volume Manager is already installed. You can start at How to Set the Number of Metadevice or Volume Names and Disksets.

Table B-1 Task Map: Installing and Configuring Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Software

Task	Instructions
1. Plan the layout of your Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager configuration.	Planning Volume Management Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Configuration Example
2. (Solaris 8 only) Install Solstice DiskSuite software.	How to Install Solstice DiskSuite Software
3. Calculate the number of metadevice names and disksets needed for your configuration, and modify the /kernel/drv/md.conf file.	How to Set the Number of Metadevice or Volume Names and Disksets
4. Create state database replicas on the local disks.	How to Create State Database Replicas
5. (Optional) Mirror file systems on the root disk.	Mirroring the Root Disk
6. Create disksets by using the metaset command.	How to Create a Diskset
7. Add disk drives to the disksets.	How to Add Disk Drives to a Diskset
8. (Optional) Repartition disk drives in a diskset to allocate space to slices 1 through 6.	How to Repartition Disk Drives in a Diskset
9. List DID pseudo-driver mappings and define metadevices or volumes in the /etc/lvm/md.tab files.	How to Create an md.tab File
10. Initialize the md.tab files.	How to Activate Metadevices or Volumes
11. (Dual-string configurations only) Configure mediator hosts, check the status of mediator data, and, if necessary, fix bad mediator data.	Configuring Mediators How to Add Mediator Hosts How to Check the Status of Mediator Data
12. Configure the cluster.	Configuring the Cluster