Chapter 25

Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Tasks)

This chapter describes how to troubleshoot problems that are related to Solaris Volume Manager. This chapter provides both general troubleshooting guidelines and specific procedures for resolving some known problems.

This chapter includes the following information:

• Troubleshooting Solaris Volume Manager (Task Map)

• Overview of Troubleshooting the System

• Replacing Disks

• Recovering From Disk Movement Problems

• Device ID Discrepancies After Upgrading to the Solaris 10 Release

• Recovering From Boot Problems

• Recovering From State Database Replica Failures

• Recovering From Soft Partition Problems

• Recovering Storage From a Different System

• Recovering From Disk Set Problems

• Performing Mounted Filesystem Backups Using the ufsdump Command

• Performing System Recovery

This chapter describes some Solaris Volume Manager problems and their appropriate solution. This chapter is not intended to be all-inclusive. but rather to present common scenarios and recovery procedures.