Deploying Suse Linux Enterprise Server
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Installing Suse Linux Enterprise Server
Configuring the Disk Subsystem (Partitioning)
The most important step during the installation procedure is to ensure that you configure the disk subsystem correctly. It can be very hard, to nearly impossible (without a total re-install) to reconfigure some aspects of the disk subsystem. So, a total understanding of what can be (or needs to be) configured for your server is imperative.
For instance, a few questions that you must ask yourself:
- Do I need to provide data redundancy across multiple drives to prevent losing data when a hard drive crashes ?
- Do I need to provide more storage than what a single disk drive can hold ?
- Will I need to have an easy way to add more storage to the server for future needs ?
- Do I need to provide a way to take a snapshot of the system at any given time ?
- Is our configuration so unique and changes so often do I need to have an advanced tool to help maintain our disk subsystem ?
Expert Partitioner within the SLES install
Normally on most Distributions, you must manually configure all of the tools needed to properly configure the server's disk subsystem, this can be a huge overhead. Thankfully, the YaST installation procedure (and the post-install Yast Modules) provides an easy way to configure and maintain all aspects of your disk subsystem, including Linux RAID, Logical Volume Management and the Enterprise Volume Management System (as well as other advanced systems, including iSCSI).
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