HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management (762803-001, March 2014)

A LVM Specifications and Limitations
This appendix discusses LVM product specifications.
NOTE: Do not infer that a system configured to these limits is automatically usable.
Table 14 Volume Group Version Maximums
Version 2.2
Volume Groups
Version 2.1
Volume Groups
Version 2.0
Volume Groups
Version 1.0
Volume Groups
1024 PB1024 PB1024 PB128 PBMaximum data on a
single HP-UX system
2048
1
2048
1
512
1
256Maximum number of
volume groups on a
system
20482048511255Maximum number of
physical volumes in
a volume group
2047
2
2047511255Maximum number of
logical volumes in a
volume group
16 TB16 TB16 TB2 TBMaximum size of a
physical volume
2048 TB2048 TB2048 TB510 TBMaximum size of a
volume group
256 TB256 TB256 TB16Maximum size of a
logical volume
256 MB256 MB256 MB256 MBMaximum size of a
physical extent
256 MB256 MB256 MB32 MBMaximum size of a
stripe
511511511255Maximum number of
stripes
33554432335544323355443265535Maximum number of
logical extents per
logical volume
16777216167772161677721665535Maximum number of
physical extents per
physical volume
5552Maximum number of
mirror copies
(MirrorDisk/UX
product required)
255Not SupportedNot supportedNot supportedMaximum number of
snapshots per LV
4MNot SupportedNot supportedNot supportedMaximum size for the
unit of unsharing
between logical
volume and its
snapshot
Maximum VG capacityNot SupportedNot supportedNot supportedMaximum snapshot
capacity per VG
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