How to create ZFS storage pool

ZFS is file system that implemented on solaris 10 6/06 or later release. To use this file system you should create ZFS pool first. ZFS pool can be a single disk (non redundant), mirrored disk, raid 5 or raid 6 disk. Below is tips to create mirrored Zpool (ZFS pool).

1. See that the are no existing ZFS pool
   bash-3.00# zpool list
   no pools available
2. List the disk that you want to use as a pool. In this example you will use 2 available disks c3t2d0 and c3t3d0 as a mirrored pool.
   bash-3.00# df -F ufs -h
   Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
   /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 14G 8.9G 5.4G 63% /
   /dev/dsk/c0d0s7 3.3G 3.4M 3.3G 1% /export/home
   /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 9.8G 7.1G 2.6G 74% /u01
   /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s0 4.9G 219M 4.7G 5% /disk01
   /dev/dsk/c3t1d0s0 4.9G 662M 4.2G 14% /disk02
   bash-3.00# format
   Searching for disks...done
   AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
   0. c0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 2607 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
   /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
   1. c0d1 <DEFAULT cyl 1302 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
   /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
   2. c3t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 2556 alt 2 hd 128 sec 32>
   /pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@0,0
   3. c3t1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 2556 alt 2 hd 128 sec 32>
   /pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@1,0
   4. c3t2d0 <DEFAULT cyl 1020 alt 2 hd 64 sec 32>
   /pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@2,0
   5. c3t3d0 <DEFAULT cyl 1020 alt 2 hd 64 sec 32>
   /pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@3,0
   Specify disk (enter its number): ^C
3. Create the mirrored pool with 2 disks. This pool name is mirrpool.
   bash-3.00# zpool create mirrpool mirror c3t2d0 c3t3d0
   bash-3.00# zpool list
   NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
   mirrpool 1008M 94K 1008M 0% ONLINE -
4. Check condition of the pool
   bash-3.00# zpool status
   pool: mirrpool
   state: ONLINE
   scrub: none requested
   config:
   NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
   mirrpool ONLINE 0 0 0
   mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
   c3t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
   c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
   errors: No known data errors