Introduction
This chapter describes some of the advantages of virtual disk management systems and briefly describes some of the techniques used by these systems to improve availability. These include duplexing, mirroring, logging and disk arrays. The features and key concepts of the virtual disk management system included with Solaris 9, the Solaris Volume Manager, are described.
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