About This Guide

The Logical Storage Manager (LSM) software provides high data availability, better performance, and greater storage management flexibility through online support for disk storage devices on Alpha systems. This guide explains LSM concepts and how to install and administer the LSM software.

Audience

This guide is intended for system administrators who need to configure and maintain disk storage under the control of the LSM software. This guide assumes that you have a:

• Working knowledge of the operating system

• Basic understanding of system administration

• Basic understanding of disk structures

Related Documents

The following documents provide information related to LSM:

• The Installation Guide and Installation Guide -- Advanced Topics describe how to install the LSM software.

• The Release Notes describe supported LSM features and products, and known problems and solutions.

• The System Configuration and Tuning guide includes information on planning, configuring and tuning disk storage subsystems.

• The AdvFS Administration guide includes information on using the AdvFS and LSM software.

• The System Administration guide describes general disk administration.

• The Cluster Administration guide describes how to configure LSM in a TruCluster environment.

Icons on Tru64 UNIX Printed Books

The printed version of the Tru64 UNIX documentation uses letter icons on the spines of the books to help specific audiences quickly find the books that meet their needs. (You can order the printed documentation from Compaq.) The following list describes this convention:

Some books in the documentation help meet the needs of several audiences. For example, the information in some system books is also used by programmers. Keep this in mind when searching for information on specific topics.

The Documentation Overview provides information on all of the books in the Tru64 UNIX documentation set.

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

#

A number sign represents the superuser prompt.

% cat

Boldface type in interactive examples indicates typed user input.

file

Italic (slanted) type indicates variable values, placeholders, and function argument names.

[ | ]
{ | }

In syntax definitions, brackets indicate items that are optional and braces indicate items that are required. Vertical bars separating items inside brackets or braces indicate that you choose one item from among those listed.

colored text

In syntax definitions, literal elements are colored green. Variable values, placeholders, and function argument names are colored red. No special colored text is used outside of syntax descriptions.

. . .

In syntax definitions, a horizontal ellipsis indicates that the preceding item can be repeated one or more times.

cat(1)

A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, cat(1) indicates that you can find information on the cat command in Section 1 of the reference pages.