Chapter 1
Getting Started With Solaris Volume Manager
The Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide describes how to set up and maintain systems using Solaris Volume
Manager to manage storage for high availability, flexibility, and reliability.
This chapter serves as a high-level guide to find information for certain
Solaris Volume Manager tasks, such as setting up storage capacity. This chapter does
not address all the tasks that you will need to use Solaris Volume
Manager. Instead, this chapter provides an overview of new features and an easy
way to find procedures describing common tasks associated with Solaris Volume Manager concepts.
This chapter includes the following roadmaps:
Caution - If you do not use Solaris Volume Manager correctly, you can destroy data.
Solaris Volume Manager provides a powerful way to reliably manage your disks and
data on them. However, you should always maintain backups of your data, particularly
before you modify an active Solaris Volume Manager configuration.