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drewrockshard
Asked: 2011-08-05 21:35:30 +0800 CST

Solaris: Good Book for metastat?

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Does anyone know any good book(s) on learning the ins and outs of Solaris's SDS (Solaris Disk Suite) and its corresponding commands (metastat, metadb, meta*)? I'm looking to invest some time into this for work.

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  1. I can recommend the book "Boot-Disk-Management-Microsystems-Resource" by John S. Howard:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boot-Disk-Management-Microsystems-Resource/dp/0130621536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312527885&sr=8-1

    It covers both DiskSuite and Veritas.

    SDS was renamed Solaris Volume Manager, the Oracle documentation in the administrator guides is also well worth reading:

    http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18752_01/html/816-4520/index.html

    It's worth piking up an old Sun Ultra with 2 x SCSI disks from ebay to learn disksuite. That way you can do the mirroring, splitting, patching, booting from each side without fear of breaking anything.

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