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

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Supported Upgrade Paths for VxFS 4.1 and VxVM 4.1........................................................................22

3 Installing the Veritas 4.1 Suite of Products.................................................................25

Mounting the media.............................................................................................................................25

Installing VxFS 4.1.................................................................................................................................25

Installing Base-VXFS 4.1..................................................................................................................25

Installing Base-VXFS 4.1 in Non-Interactive Mode....................................................................25

Installing Base-VXFS 4.1 in Interactive Mode............................................................................25

Verifying Base-VXFS 4.1 Installation..........................................................................................26

Installing HP OnlineJFS (B3929EA) 4.1...........................................................................................26

Installing HP OnlineJFS (B3929EA) 4.1 in Non-Interactive Mode.............................................26

Installing HP OnlineJFS (B3929EA) 4.1 in the Interactive Mode...............................................26

Verifying HP OnlineJFS (B3929EA) 4.1 Installation...................................................................26

Installing VxVM 4.1..............................................................................................................................26

Installing Base-VXVM 4.1................................................................................................................26

Installing Base-VXVM 4.1 in Non-Interactive Mode.................................................................26

Installing Base-VXVM 4.1 in the Interactive Mode....................................................................26

Verifying the Base-VXVM Installation.......................................................................................27

Installing Full VxVM (B9116BA) ....................................................................................................27

Installing Full VxVM in Non-Interactive mode.........................................................................27

Installing Full VxVM in Interactive Mode.................................................................................27

Verifying the Full VxVM (B9116BA) installation.......................................................................27

Cold installation of VxFS 4.1 and VxVM 4.1 using Ignite-UX..............................................................27

Installing an Ignite-UX server for cold installation of VxVM 4.1 and VxFS 4.1..............................27

Cold Installing VxFS and VxVM.....................................................................................................28

4 Setting up the Veritas 4.1 Products.............................................................................29

Setting up and managing VxVM 4.1.....................................................................................................29

Initializing VxVM using vxinstall...................................................................................................29

Managing Disks with VxVM...........................................................................................................30

Creating and managing VxVM Logical objects...............................................................................31

Diskgroups.................................................................................................................................31

Subdisks.....................................................................................................................................35

Plexes..........................................................................................................................................36

Volumes......................................................................................................................................38

Volume sets................................................................................................................................42

Setting Up a Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Server.........................................................42

Setting Up a Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Client..........................................................43

Invoking VEA from HP-UX System Management Home Page......................................................43

Setting up and managing VxFS 4.1 ......................................................................................................45

Creating a VxFS File System............................................................................................................45

Identifying File System Type...........................................................................................................45

Converting a File System to VxFS...................................................................................................45

Mounting a VxFS File System..........................................................................................................46

Displaying Information on Mounted File System...........................................................................46

Resizing a VxFS File System............................................................................................................46

Resizing an unmounted file system...........................................................................................46

Resizing a mounted file system............................................................................................46

Reorganizing a VxFS File System....................................................................................................46

Backing up a VxFS File System.......................................................................................................46

Restoring a VxFS File System..........................................................................................................46

Using Quotas...................................................................................................................................46

Unmounting a VxFS File System.....................................................................................................47

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