9.0 Managing Software RAID Devices

RAID devices can help improve your storage availability and performance by enhancing data fault tolerance and I/O performance. The Novell® Storage Services™ (NSS) File System supports software RAIDs 0, 1, 5, 10, and 15.

This section discusses the following:

Section 9.1, Understanding Software RAID Devices
Section 9.2, Planning for a Software RAID Device
Section 9.3, Viewing Software RAID Devices on a Server
Section 9.4, Viewing Details of a Software RAID Device
Section 9.5, Creating a Software RAID Device Using iManager
Section 9.6, Renaming a Software RAID Device
Section 9.7, Increasing the Size of a Software RAID Device
Section 9.8, Restriping a Software RAID 0 or 5 Device
Section 9.9, Replacing a Failed Segment in a Software RAID
Section 9.10, Deleting a Software RAID Device
Section 9.11, Viewing Pools on a Software RAID Device
Section 9.12, Viewing Partitions on a Software RAID Device
Section 9.13, Deleting Partitions on a Software RAID Device
Section 9.14, Managing Software RAID Devices with NSSMU
Section 9.15, Creating Software RAID Devices with NSSMU
Section 9.16, Mirroring an Existing Pool with NSSMU
Section 9.17, Creating a Software RAID 10 with NSSMU
Section 9.18, Creating a Software RAID 15 with NSSMU
Section 9.19, Creating a RAID 1 Mirror to Duplicate Data