HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90053 September 2011) Transform used: ESS version 2.2

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, 75
commands for, 39
converting from bootable to nonbootable, 84, 169
creating, 43
defined, 9
device file, 13, 15, 163
disabling a path, 87
disk layout, 16
displaying information, 41
moving, 71, 72
moving data between, 73
naming convention, 13
removing, 51
resizing, 77
pre-allocated extents, 103
primary swap logical volume, 23
as a dump area, 23
mirroring, 90
PV timeout, 161
pvchange command, 39, 153
disabling a path, 87, 129, 132, 134, 138
errors, 166
multipathing, 28
restoring volume group configuration, 70
setting timeout, 110
sparing, 77
pvck command, 12, 39, 108, 153
pvcreate command, 9, 12, 39, 43, 153
for boot disks, 44, 89, 91, 93
sparing, 77
pvdisplay command, 10, 35, 39, 41, 107, 108, 153
finding logical volumes using a disk, 123
sparing, 27
pvlinks see multipathing
pvmove command, 39, 73, 153
abnormal termination, 75
auto re-balancing, 75
moving physical extent 0, 59, 60, 63, 65
sparing, 77
PVRA
area on disk, 17
pvremove command, 39, 153
Q
quiescing a volume group, 65
quorum, 34
defined, 111, 178
enabling, 68
error messages, 111
overriding, 67, 111, 112, 178
overriding at boot, 91, 93, 112, 135, 138
requirements for booting, 115
R
raw data logical volume
stripe size for, 32
reducing a logical volume, 55
reducing the size of a file system logical volume, 99
reinstating a spare disk, 77
remote support, 145
removing a dump logical volume, 103
removing a logical volume, 57
removing a mirror copy from a disk, 126
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, 68
renaming a logical volume, 56
renaming a volume group, 66
replacing a failed disk, 129
mirrored, 129, 134
unmirrored, 131
resizing a physical volume, 77
resizing a swap logical volume, 102
restoring data
volume group configuration, 70
resuming a queisced volume group, 65
root logical volume, 89
creating, 88
information in BDRA, 16
lvlnboot, 89
mirroring, 90
requirements, 88, 98
root volume group
and dump, 23
S
scheduling policy, 25
parallel, 25
sequential, 25
scsimgr command
during disk replacement, 130, 132, 135
multipathing, 28, 87
secondary swap, 23
configuration, 102
sequential scheduling policy, 25
snapshot logical volumes
creating, 103
defined, 178
displaying, 104
fully-allocated, 103
removing, 104
space-efficient, 103
types, 103
space-efficient snapshot, 103
spanning
defined, 8
performance considerations, 30
sparing, 12, 27
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