About This Guide

This guide describes how to configure and manage disk storage using the Logical Storage Manager (LSM) software. It includes information on LSM concepts and how to plan, set up, monitor, change, and troubleshoot an LSM configuration.

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone who needs to configure and manage storage devices under LSM control. To use this guide you must be able to administer a system running the Tru64 UNIX operating system software and its storage devices.

New and Changed Features

The LSM guide has been extensively revised and reorganized to simplify the presentation of material and place more emphasis on performing tasks.

Organization

This guide contains the following chapters and appendices.

Chapter 1 Describes LSM features, terms, and concepts, and introduces the available interfaces to LSM.
Chapter 2 Provides worksheets to aid you in planning your LSM configuration.
Chapter 3 Describes how to upgrade a system with an existing LSM configuration, or install LSM for the first time as part of a system upgrade or installation.
Chapter 4 Describes how to create LSM volumes, and how to encapsulate existing data or file systems into LSM volumes.
Chapter 5 Describes common management tasks for LSM objects.
Chapter 6 Describes how to recover from problems and how to replace disks under LSM control.
Chapter 7 Describes LSM error messages and solutions.
Appendix A Describes how to install and start the Storage Administrator GUI, and how to manage LSM objects using this interface.
Appendix B Describes how to track Storage Administrator activities, how to use the Storage Administrator, and how to customize the Storage Administrator GUI.
Appendix C Describes how to manage LSM objects using the voldiskadm menu interface.
Appendix D Describes how to start the Visual Administrator (dxlsm) interface, and describes its windows, icons, and mouse operations.
Appendix E Describes how to manage LSM objects with the Visual Administrator (dxlsm) interface.
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Related Documents

The following operating system documents provide information related to LSM:

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:

  G Books for general users
  S Books for system and network administrators
  P Books for programmers
  D Books for device driver writers
  R Books for reference page users

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

This guide uses the following conventions:

#

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.