Administering Global Devices, Disk-Path Monitoring, and Cluster File Systems

This chapter provides the procedures for administering global devices, disk-path monitoring and cluster file systems.

Following is a list of the procedures in this chapter.

• How to Update the Global Device Namespace

• How to Add and Register a Disk Device Group (Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager)

• How to Remove and Unregister a Disk Device Group (Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager)

• How to Remove a Node From All Disk Device Groups

• How to Remove a Node From a Disk Device Group (Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager)

• How to Create More Than Three Disksets in a Cluster

• SPARC: How to Create a New Disk Group When Initializing Disks (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Create a New Disk Group When Encapsulating Disks (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Add a New Volume to an Existing Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Make an Existing Disk Group Into a Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Assign a New Minor Number to a Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Register a Disk Group as a Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Register Disk Group Configuration Changes (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Set the Desired Number of Secondaries (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Remove a Volume From a Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Remove and Unregister a Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Add a Node to a Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Remove a Node From a Disk Device Group (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• SPARC: How to Remove a Node From a Raw Disk Device Group

• How to Change Disk Device Properties

• How to Change the Desired Number of Secondaries for a Device Group

• How to List a Disk Device Group Configuration

• How to Switch the Primary for a Device Group

• How to Put a Disk Device Group in Maintenance State

• How to Add a Cluster File System

• How to Remove a Cluster File System

• How to Check Global Mounts in a Cluster

• How to Monitor a Disk Path

• How to Print Faulted Disk Paths

• How to Unmonitor a Disk Path

• How to Monitor Disk Paths From a File

For a high-level description of the related procedures in this chapter, see Table 4-2.

See the Sun Cluster Concepts Guide for Solaris OS for conceptual information related to global devices, the global namespace, disk device groups, disk-path monitoring and the cluster file system.