HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management (5900-3028, March 2013)
policies for allocating, 24
policies for writing, 25
size, 9, 17
synchronizing, 26
physical volume groups, 30, 33
naming convention, 15
Physical Volume Reserved Area see PVRA
physical volumes
adding, 51
auto re-balancing, 74
commands for, 39
converting from bootable to nonbootable, 83, 171
creating, 43
defined, 9
device file, 14, 15, 165
disabling a path, 86
disk layout, 16
displaying information, 42
moving, 71, 72
moving data between, 72
naming convention, 14
removing, 51
resizing, 77
pre-allocated extents, 105
primary swap logical volume, 23
as a dump area, 23
mirroring, 89
PV timeout, 163
pvchange command, 39, 155
disabling a path, 86, 132, 135, 137, 140
errors, 168
multipathing, 28
restoring volume group configuration, 70
setting timeout, 113
sparing, 76
pvck command, 12, 39, 111, 155
pvcreate command, 9, 12, 39, 43, 155
for boot disks, 44, 88, 90, 92
sparing, 76
pvdisplay command, 10, 35, 39, 42, 110, 111, 155
finding logical volumes using a disk, 126
sparing, 27
pvlinks see multipathing
pvmove command, 39, 72, 155
abnormal termination, 74
auto re-balancing, 74
moving physical extent 0, 59, 60, 62, 64
sparing, 77
PVRA
area on disk, 17
pvremove command, 39, 155
Q
quiescing a volume group, 65
quorum, 34
defined, 114, 181
enabling, 67
error messages, 114
overriding, 67, 114, 115, 181
overriding at boot, 90, 92, 115, 137, 140
requirements for booting, 118
R
raw data logical volume
stripe size for, 32
reducing a logical volume, 54
reducing the size of a file system logical volume, 98
reinstating a spare disk, 76
remote support, 147
removing a dump logical volume, 103
removing a logical volume, 56
removing a mirror copy from a disk, 129
removing a mirror from a logical volume, 56
from a specific disk, 56
removing a physical volume from a volume group, 51
removing a volume group, 67
renaming a logical volume, 56
renaming a volume group, 66
replacing a failed disk, 132
mirrored, 132, 137
unmirrored, 134
resizing a physical volume, 77
resizing a swap logical volume, 101
restoring data
volume group configuration, 70
resuming a queisced volume group, 65
root logical volume, 88
creating, 87
information in BDRA, 16
lvlnboot, 88
mirroring, 89
requirements, 87, 97
S
scheduling policy, 25
parallel, 25
sequential, 25
scsimgr command
during disk replacement, 133, 135, 138
multipathing, 28, 86
secondary swap, 23
configuration, 101
sequential scheduling policy, 25
snapshot logical volumes
creating, 104
defined, 181
displaying, 106
fully-allocated, 105
removing, 105
space-efficient, 105
types, 105
space-efficient snapshot, 105
spanning
defined, 8
performance considerations, 30
sparing, 12, 27
creating a spare disk, 76
defined, 8, 27
185