HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (October 2010)
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes
- Table of Contents
- Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes
- About this document
- LVM and MirrorDisk/UX overview
- Known problems fixed in this version
- Known problems and limitations
- Known problems
- Auto pre-allocation occurs for all unsharing if distributed snapshot has 2 PVs
- Auto pre-allocated, distributed snapshot threshold considers all LV pre-allocated extents in PV
- Activation of Version 2.2 VG with space-efficient snapshots fails to properly mark snapshots as read-only when there are no free extents
- The lvextend command fails to increase the number of pre-allocated extents
- Limitations
- Known problems
- Installation requirements
- HP Insight Remote Support Software
- Compatibility issues
- Related documentation
- Software Availability in Native Languages

In addition, LVM user documentation is available in English at http://www.hp.com/go/
hpux-core-docs. Available documents include:
• HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes (this version and previous
versions)
• HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management (this document is localized)
• LVM 2.0 Volume Groups in HP-UX 11i v3
• LVM New Features in HP-UX 11i v3
• LVM Limits
• LVM Migration from Legacy to Agile Naming Model: HP-UX 11i v3
• LVM Online Disk Replacement (LVM OLR)
• Using the vgmodify command to Perform LVM Volume Group Dynamic LUN Expansion (DLE)
and Contraction (DLC)
• LVM Volume Group Quiesce/Resume
• SLVM Single-Node Online Reconfiguration (SLVM SNOR)
• SLVM Online Reconfiguration
• When Good Disks Go Bad: Dealing with Disk Failures under LVM
• Using the vgversion Command to Perform LVM Volume Group Version Migration
• Using LVM Logical Volume Snapshots
Software Availability in Native Languages
The commands delivered with LVM and MirrorDisk/UX support localized message catalogs.
The kernel components which generate messages directly to the console and the system log are
available only in the English language.
LVM and MirrorDisk/UX manpages are available in English and Japanese.
The HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management is available in English,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
These documents are on http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs.
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