Provides information about how to manage storage devices on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
- About This Guide
- I File Systems and Mounting
- II Logical Volumes (LVM)
- 5 LVM Configuration
- 5.1 Understanding the Logical Volume Manager
- 5.2 Creating Volume Groups
- 5.3 Creating Logical Volumes
- 5.4 Automatically Activating Non-Root LVM Volume Groups
- 5.5 Resizing an Existing Volume Group
- 5.6 Resizing a Logical Volume
- 5.7 Deleting a Volume Group or a Logical Volume
- 5.8 Using LVM Commands
- 5.9 Tagging LVM2 Storage Objects
- 6 LVM Volume Snapshots
- 5 LVM Configuration
- III Software RAID
- IV Network Storage
- 13 iSNS for Linux
- 14 Mass Storage over IP Networks: iSCSI
- 15 Fibre Channel Storage over Ethernet Networks: FCoE
- 16 NVMe-oF
- 17 Managing multipath I/O for devices
- 17.1 Understanding multipath I/O
- 17.2 Hardware support
- 17.3 Planning for multipathing
- 17.4 Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on multipath systems
- 17.5 Updating SLE on multipath systems
- 17.6 Multipath management tools
- 17.7 Configuring the system for multipathing
- 17.8 Multipath configuration
- 17.9 Configuring policies for failover, queuing, and failback
- 17.10 Configuring path grouping and priorities
- 17.11 Selecting devices for multipathing
- 17.12 Multipath device names and WWIDs
- 17.13 Miscellaneous options
- 17.14 Best practice
- 17.15 Troubleshooting MPIO
- 18 Managing Access Control Lists over NFSv4
- A GNU licenses
- 1.1 File System Types in Linux
- 1.2 Maximum Sizes of Files and File Systems (On-Disk Format, 4 KiB Block Size)
- 1.3 Storage Limitations
- 2.1 File System Support for Resizing
- 7.1 Comparison of RAID 5 and RAID 6
- 9.1 Nested RAID Levels
- 9.2 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 (1+0) by Nesting
- 9.3 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 (0+1) by Nesting
- 9.4 Complex RAID 10 compared to Nested RAID 10
- 9.5 Scenario for Creating a RAID 10 Using mdadm
- 11.1 Tasks Involved in Resizing a RAID
- 11.2 Scenario for Increasing the Size of Component Partitions
- 12.1 Translation between Non-SES-2 Patterns and SES-2 Patterns
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