Solaris Volume Manager (SVM; formerly known as Online: DiskSuite, and later Solstice DiskSuite) is a software package for creating, modifying and controlling

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-0 (concatenation and stripe) volumes, RAID-1 (mirror) volumes, RAID 0+1 volumes, RAID 1+0 volumes, RAID-5 volumes, and soft partitions. Version 1.0 of Online: DiskSuite was released as an add-on product for

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in late 1991; the product has undergone significant enhancements over the years. SVM has been included as a standard part of

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since Solaris 8 was released in February 2000. SVM is similar in functionality to later software

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s such as

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Vinum volume manager, allowing ''metadevices'' (virtual disks) to be concatenated, striped or mirrored together from physical ones. It also supports soft partitioning, dynamic

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s, and growing metadevices. The mirrors support dirty region logging (DRL, called resync regions in DiskSuite) and logging support for RAID-5. The

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file system, added in the

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6/06 release, has its own integrated volume management capabilities, but SVM continues to be included with Solaris for use with other file systems.

References

External links

Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide
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