Veritas 4.1 Installation Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

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Table of Contents

About this Document..........................................................................................................9

Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................9

Document Organization.........................................................................................................................9

Typographic Convention........................................................................................................................9

Related Documentation........................................................................................................................10

Publishing History................................................................................................................................10

Technical Support.................................................................................................................................10

HP Encourages Your Comments.....................................................................................................11

1 Product Overview.........................................................................................................13

Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i Version 3........................................................................13

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 4.1...................................................................................................13

Introduction.....................................................................................................................................13

VxVM Features................................................................................................................................13

VxVM 4.1 on HP–UX 11i v3............................................................................................................14

Architecture of VxVM.....................................................................................................................14

VxVM Daemons..............................................................................................................................15

VxVM Objects..................................................................................................................................15

Volume Layouts in VxVM...............................................................................................................15

VxVM Storage Layouts....................................................................................................................16

Concatenation and Spanning.....................................................................................................16

Striping (RAID-0).......................................................................................................................16

Mirroring (RAID-1)....................................................................................................................16

Striping Plus Mirroring (Mirrored-Stripe or RAID-0+1)............................................................16

Mirroring Plus Striping (Striped-Mirror, RAID-1+0 or RAID-10).............................................16

RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)....................................................................................................16

VxVM Interfaces..............................................................................................................................17

Command Line Interface............................................................................................................17

Menu-driven utility....................................................................................................................17

Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)....................................................................................17

File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i Version 3.................................................................................17

Veritas File System (VxFS) 4.1 ..............................................................................................................17

Introduction.....................................................................................................................................17

VxFS Features..................................................................................................................................18

VxFS 4.1 on HP–UX 11i Version3....................................................................................................19

Architecture of VxFS........................................................................................................................19

Extent Based Allocation...................................................................................................................20

Supported File and File System Size...............................................................................................20

2 System Requirement.....................................................................................................21

Hardware Configuration Supported....................................................................................................21

Software Dependency...........................................................................................................................21

OS Version.............................................................................................................................................21

Patch Requirement................................................................................................................................21

Software Depot Content........................................................................................................................21

License Bundles.....................................................................................................................................22

Disk Space Requirement.......................................................................................................................22

Disk Space Requirement for VxFS 4.1.............................................................................................22

Disk Space Requirement for VxVM 4.1...........................................................................................22

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