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<preface id="userguidepref"><title>Preface</title>
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<para>This guide tells how to configure and manage Enterprise
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Volume Management System (EVMS). EVMS is a storage management program
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that provides a single framework for managing and administering your system's storage.</para>
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<para>This guide is intended for Linux system administrators and users who are
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responsible for setting up and maintaining EVMS.</para>
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<para>For additional information about EVMS or to ask questions specific to
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your distribution, refer to the EVMS mailing lists. You can view the list
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archives or subscribe to the lists from
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the <ulink url="http://evms.sourceforge.net/mailinglists.html">EVMS Project
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web site</ulink>.</para>
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<para>The following table shows how this guide is organized:</para>
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<table id="bookorg" frame="all"><title>Organization of the EVMS User Guide</title>
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<tgroup cols="2"><colspec colnum="1" colwidth="1.5in"></colspec><colspec colnum="2" colwidth="3.5in"></colspec>
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<thead><row><entry>Chapter or appendix title</entry>
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<entry>Contents</entry></row></thead>
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<tbody><row><entry>1. What is EVMS?</entry>
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<entry>Discusses general EVMS concepts and terms.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>2. Using the EVMS interfaces</entry>
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<entry>Describes the three EVMS user interfaces and how to use them.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>3. The EVMS log file and error data collection</entry>
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<entry>Discusses the EVMS information and error log file and explains how to change the logging level.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>4. Viewing compatibility volumes after migrating</entry>
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<entry>Tells how to view existing files that have been migrated to EVMS.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>5. Obtaining interface display details</entry>
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<entry>Tells how to view detailed information about EVMS objects.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>6. Adding and removing a segment manager</entry>
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<entry>Discusses segments and explains how to add and remove a segment manager.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>7. Creating segments</entry>
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<entry>Explains when and how to create segments.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>8. Creating containers</entry>
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<entry>Discusses containers and explains when and how to create them.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>9. Creating regions</entry>
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<entry>Discusses regions and explains when and how to create them.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>10. Creating drive links</entry>
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<entry>Discusses the drive linking feature and tells how to create a drive link.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>11. Creating snapshots</entry>
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<entry>Discusses snapshotting and tells how to create a snapshot.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>12. Creating volumes</entry><entry>Explains when and how to create volumes.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>13. FSIMs and file system operations</entry>
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<entry>Discusses the standard FSIMs shipped with EVMS and provides examples of adding file systems and coordinating file checks with the FSIMs.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>14. Clustering operations</entry><entry>Describes EVMS clustering and how to create private and shared containers.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>15. Converting volumes</entry>
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<entry>Explains how to convert EVMS native volumes to compatibility volumes and compatibility volumes to EVMS native volumes.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>16. Expanding and shrinking volumes</entry><entry>Tells how to expand and shrink EVMS volumes with the various EVMS user interfaces.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>17. Adding features to an existing volume</entry>
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<entry>Tells how to add additional features, such as drive linking, to an
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existing volume.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>18. Selectively activating volumes and objects</entry>
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<entry>Explains how to selectively activate and deactive volumes
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and options.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>19. Mounting and unmounting volumes from within EVMS.</entry><entry>Tells how to have EVMS mount and unmount volumes so you do not have to open a separate terminal session.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>20. Plug-in operations tasks</entry>
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<entry>Discusses the plug-in tasks that are available within the context of a particular plug-in.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>21. Deleting objects</entry><entry>Tells how to safely delete EVMS objects.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>22. Replacing objects</entry><entry>Tells how to change the
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configuration of a volume or storage object.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>23. Moving segment storage objects</entry><entry>Discusses how to use
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the move function for moving segments.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>A. The DOS plug-in</entry>
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<entry>Provides details about the DOS plug-in, which is a segment manager plug-in.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>B. The MD region manager</entry>
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<entry>Explains the Multiple Disks (MD) support in Linux that is a software implementation of RAID.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>C. The LVM plug-in</entry>
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<entry>Tells how the LVM plug-in is implemented and how to perform container operations.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>D. The LVM2 plug-in</entry>
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<entry>Tells how the LVM2 plug-in is implemented and how to perform container operations on
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LVM2 containers.</entry>
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</row>
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<row><entry>E. The CSM plug-in</entry>
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<entry>Explains how the Cluster Segment Manager (CSM) plug-in is implemented and how to perform CSM operations.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>F. JFS file system interface module</entry>
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<entry>Provides information about the JFS FSIM.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>G. XFS file system interface module</entry>
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<entry>Provides information about the XFS FSIM.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>H. ReiserFS file system interface module</entry>
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<entry>Provides information about the ReiserFS FSIM.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>I. Ext-2/3 file system interface module</entry>
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<entry>Provides information about the Ext-2/3 FSIM.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>J. OpenGFS file system interface module</entry>
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<entry>Provides information about the OpenGFS FSIM.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>K. NTFS file system interface module</entry>
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<entry>Provides information about the NTFS FSIM.</entry></row>
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</tbody></tgroup>
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</table>
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</preface>
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