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Wipro Infotech Ltd. Es Division: Hardware Raid

The document discusses how to create and manage hardware-based RAID 1 (mirrored) volumes on Solaris using the raidctl command. It explains that raidctl can be used to create a mirrored volume from two disks, check the status of the mirror as it resynchronizes, and delete the RAID volume when no longer needed.

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Wipro Infotech Ltd. Es Division: Hardware Raid

The document discusses how to create and manage hardware-based RAID 1 (mirrored) volumes on Solaris using the raidctl command. It explains that raidctl can be used to create a mirrored volume from two disks, check the status of the mirror as it resynchronizes, and delete the RAID volume when no longer needed.

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Wipro InfoTech Ltd.

ES Division
Hardware raid

The hardware based system manages the RAID subsystem independently from the host and presents to the host only a single disk per RAID array. This way the host doesn't have to be aware of the RAID subsystems(s).

Create a Hardware Mirrored Volume

# raidctl -c primary secondary

The creation of the RAID volume is interactive, by default. For example:


# raidctl -c c1t0d0 c1t1d0 Creating RAID volume c1t0d0 will destroy all data on member disks, proceed (yes/no)? yes ... Volume c1t0d0 is created successfully! #

As an alternative, you can use the f option to force the creation if you are sure of the member disks and sure that the data on both member disks can be lost. For example:

# raidctl -f -c c1t0d0 c1t1d0 Volume c1t0d0 is created successfully! #

When you create a RAID mirror, the secondary drive (in this case, c1t1d0) disappears from the Solaris device tree.

To check the status of the RAID mirror, type the following command:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

# raidctl -l c1t0d0 Volume Size Stripe Status Cache RAID Sub Size Level Disk ---------------------------------------------------------------c1t0d0 136.6G N/A SYNC OFF RAID1 0.0.0 136.6G GOOD 0.1.0 136.6G GOOD

The preceding example indicates that the RAID mirror is still resynchronizing with the backup drive.

The following example shows that the RAID mirror is synchronized and online.
# raidctl -l c1t0d0 Volume Size Stripe Status Cache RAID Sub Size Level Disk ---------------------------------------------------------------c1t0d0 136.6G N/A OPTIMAL OFF RAID1 0.0.0 136.6G GOOD 0.1.0 136.6G GOOD

To delete a RAID

raidctl d (raid volume) raidctl d c1t0d0

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