Configure RAID Logical Volumes
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LVM RAID is a way to create a Logical Volume (LV) that uses multiple physical devices to improve performance or tolerate device failures. In LVM, the physical devices are Physical Volumes (PVs) in a single Volume Group (VG).
This tutorial will work with the Oracle Linux Volume Manager utilities to create a RAID logical volume and then address a disk failure.
Objectives
In this tutorial, you will learn how to:
- Create a RAID logical volume
- Resize a RAID logical volume
- Recover a failed RAID device
Prerequisites
The tutorial uses the following system:
- Any Oracle Linux 8 system with the following configurations:
- a non-root user with sudo permissions
- additional block volumes for use with LVM