Veritas 5.0 Installation Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008
Table of Contents
About this Document..........................................................................................................9
Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................9
Document Organization.........................................................................................................................9
Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................9
Related Information..............................................................................................................................10
Technical Support.................................................................................................................................10
HP Welcomes Your Comments.............................................................................................................11
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................13
Product Overview.................................................................................................................................13
Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i v3.............................................................................13
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) ........................................................................................................14
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................14
VxVM Features................................................................................................................................14
VxVM 5.0 on HP–UX 11i v3............................................................................................................15
Architecture of VxVM.....................................................................................................................15
VxVM Daemons..............................................................................................................................15
VxVM Objects..................................................................................................................................15
Volume Layouts in VxVM...............................................................................................................16
VxVM Storage Layouts....................................................................................................................16
Concatenation and Spanning.....................................................................................................16
Striping (RAID-0).......................................................................................................................17
Mirroring (RAID-1)....................................................................................................................17
Striping Plus Mirroring (Mirrored-Stripe or RAID-0+1)............................................................17
Mirroring Plus Striping (Striped-Mirror, RAID-1+0 or RAID-10).............................................17
RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)....................................................................................................17
VxVM Interfaces..............................................................................................................................17
Command-Line Interface...........................................................................................................17
Menu-driven utility....................................................................................................................17
Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)....................................................................................17
File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i v3............................................................................................18
Veritas File System (VxFS) ...................................................................................................................18
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................18
VxFS Features..................................................................................................................................18
VxFS 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3...............................................................................................................20
Architecture of VxFS........................................................................................................................20
Extent Based Allocation...................................................................................................................20
Storage Management for Oracle...........................................................................................................21
2 System Requirements....................................................................................................23
Software Dependency...........................................................................................................................23
OS Version.............................................................................................................................................23
Patch Requirements .............................................................................................................................23
Required Packages for Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA).........................................................24
Software Depot Content........................................................................................................................24
License Bundles.....................................................................................................................................25
Disk Space Requirements.....................................................................................................................25
Disk Space Requirements for VxFS 5.0............................................................................................25
Disk Space Requirements for VxVM 5.0.........................................................................................25
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