intended for system administrators who are responsible for managing the operating system. To understand and use the information in this manual, system programmers and administrators should have in-depth knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and utilities.

3.1.11Logical Storage Manager (revised)

The Logical Storage Manager (LSM) software provides high data availability, better performance, and greater storage management flexibility through online support for disk storage devices on Alpha systems.

The Logical Storage Manager manual explains LSM concepts and how to install and administer the LSM software.

The following topics are among those discussed:

Encapsulating and mirroring the boot disk

Creating and configuring LSM volumes and disks

Using LSM commands to manage LSM objects such as disks, disk groups, volumes, plexes, and subdisks

LSM-related preventative maintenance procedures that enable administrators to restore the LSM configuration if a disk or system fails

Troubleshooting the LSM software

Using the Storage Administrator graphical interface to manage LSM objects such as disks, disk groups, volumes, plexes, and subdisks

This manual is intended for system administrators who need to configure and maintain disk storage under the control of the LSM software. The reader should have a working knowledge of the operating system, a basic understanding of system administration, and a basic understanding of disk structures.

3.1.12Managing Online Addition and Removal (new)

ThisManaging Online Addition and Removal manual describes the Tru64 UNIX Online Addition and Removal (OLAR) features. It provides guidelines for their use and provides configuration and management techniques.

Although some tasks described in this manual are geared toward systems that have OLAR capabilities, many can be performed on systems without such capabilities.

The following topics are among those discussed:

An overview of OLAR hardware components and the operating system features related to OLAR used to increase a system’s availability

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