HP-UX 11i v3 LVM New Features in HP-UX 11i v3 (September 2009)

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17501
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Total Spare PVs in use 0
VG Max Size 1120064m
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For more information, see the vgdisplay(1M) manual page.
y created the directory for the volume group
group’ using the mkdir and mknod commands.
upport automatic
name/group
file. If the file is not present, the command creates one.
Using the automatic creation of volume group control file feature, it is possible to have a shared volume
different nodes of a cluster. When creating shared volume groups, HP
with a minor number that is free on all nodes of the cluster.
-UX 11i v3, the
pvmove command is enhanced to have several new
ysical extents.
physical volume.
ume.
d mirrored logical volumes.
• Support for a new option, -p, to preview physical extent movement details
without performing the move.
Examples
• To preview the movement of first physical extent from source physical volume /dev/dsk/c5t7d0 to any
physical volume in the volume group:
# pvmove -p /dev/dsk/c5t7d0:0
--- Preview of the Relocation Operation ---
Source PV Source PE Destination PV Destination PE
Max LV
Cur LV
Open LV
Max PV
Cur PV
Act PV
Max PE per PV
VGDA
PE Size (Mbytes)
Total PE
Alloc PE
Free PE
Total PVG 0
0Total Spare PVs
VG Version 1.0
VG Max Extents
Auto Creation of Volume Group File
Prior to the March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3, the user manuall
and the device file named ‘
With the March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3, the vgcreate and vgimport commands s
creation of the directory of the volume group and the volume group control file /dev/vg
regardless of the volume group version. The commands retain support for manually created
/dev/vgname/group
For more information, see the vgcreate(1M) and vgimport(1M) manual pages.
NOTE:
group with different minor numbers on
recommends that you manually create the group file
pvmove Enhancements
In the September 2008 release of HP
features:
• Support for moving a range of ph
• Support for moving extents from the end of a
•
Support for moving extents to a specific location on the destination physical vol
• Support for moving the physical extents from striped logical volumes and stripe