VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Introduction to the Storage Administrator
Task Roadmap
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Task Roadmap
This section provides a summary of common Volume Manager Storage
Administrator tasks. The tasks are grouped into setup tasks, ongoing
maintenance tasks, and repair or recovery tasks. The procedures for
these and other tasks are included in later chapters.
Setup Tasks
If you are using the Volume Manager and the Storage Administrator for
the first time, you need to install both products, place your disks under
Volume Manager control, and create volumes.
To install and set up the Storage Administrator
• Install the Volume Manager and Storage Administrator.
• Initialize the Volume Manager.
• Start the Storage Administrator.
These tasks are described in Chapter 2, “Getting Started.”
To set up disks
• Place uninitialized disks under Volume Manager control.
• Create additional disk groups for the new disks (optional).
• Designate one or more disks as hot-relocation spares (optional).
These tasks are described in Chapter 3, Disk Tasks.
To set up volumes and file systems
• Create volumes.
• Place file systems on volumes (optional).
• Create mirrors for any volumes that need to be redundant.
These tasks are described in Chapter 4, Volume Tasks.
To access hosts and clusters
• Connect to additional host machine(s).