Boot Disk Management examines the life cycle of the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and its boot disk. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the Solaris OE boot disk are presented in detail. Additionally, this book provides recommendations for installing the Solaris OE, as well as recommendations for managing Solaris OE upgrades with Live Upgrade.

This book also provides best practices for selecting a logical volume manager and configuring Solstice DiskSuite (also known as Solaris Volume Manager) or VERITAS Volume Manager to manage the Solaris OE boot disk. The reference configurations presented demonstrate how these recommendations can be used to help improve system reliability, serviceability, and recovery time.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

John S. Howard is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems working in the Enterprise Engineering group. He has over 19 years experience in software engineering and systems administration on a diverse array of platforms. John is currently working on projects for enhancing system availability and serviceability.

David Deeths has worked in Sun's Enterprise Engineering group for four years. His work has focused primarily on clusters and high-availability systems. He is coauthor of the Sun BluePrints book "The Sun Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster 2.2" and has published numerous online articles on a variety of topics. David holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego.