6.0 Advanced Disk Setup

Sophisticated system configurations require particular disk setups. To get persistent device naming with SCSI devices, use a specific start-up script or udev. Logical Volume Management (LVM) is a disk partitioning scheme that is designed to be much more flexible than the physical partitioning used in standard setups. Its snapshot functionality enables you to create data backups easily. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) offers increased data integrity, performance, and fault tolerance. SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server also supports multipath I/O. For details, see Section 10.0, Multipath IO. Starting with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, there is also the option to use iSCSI as a networked disk. Read more about iSCSI in Section 11.0, Mass Storage over IP Networks—iSCSI .