Introducing Disk and Storage Administration

Organizations require data to be available 24×7. Taking a system offline to perform traditional maintenance is not a viable option anymore. Solaris OE provides disk and storage management solutions designed to meet the demands of Solaris users. These solutions provide high data availability and reliability, enhanced system and I/O performance, and simple large system and disk administration. Disk administration requires relevant skills and experience for effective management of the system disks.

This chapter details the disk administration tasks, such as adding and configuring new disks and formatting and repairing the disk drives. The chapter also details the storage management solutions provided by ...

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