Veritas 5.0.1 Installation Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (5992-0031, September 2011)

Contents
About this Document......................................................................................7
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................7
Document Organization............................................................................................................7
Typographic Conventions...........................................................................................................7
Related Information...................................................................................................................8
Technical Support.....................................................................................................................8
HP Welcomes Your Comments....................................................................................................9
1 Introduction.............................................................................................10
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i v3...........................................................................10
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) .............................................................................................11
Introduction.......................................................................................................................11
VxVM Features..................................................................................................................11
VxVM 5.0.1 on HP–UX 11i v3..............................................................................................13
Architecture of VxVM.........................................................................................................13
VxVM Daemons................................................................................................................13
VxVM Objects...................................................................................................................14
Volume Layouts in VxVM.....................................................................................................14
VxVM Storage Layouts........................................................................................................15
Concatenation and Spanning.........................................................................................15
Striping (RAID-0)...........................................................................................................15
Mirroring (RAID-1).........................................................................................................15
Striping Plus Mirroring (Mirrored-Stripe or RAID-0+1)..........................................................15
Mirroring Plus Striping (Striped-Mirror, RAID-1+0 or RAID-10)..............................................15
RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)............................................................................................15
VxVM Interfaces................................................................................................................16
Command-Line Interface.................................................................................................16
Menu-driven utility.........................................................................................................16
Veritas Enterprise Administrator.......................................................................................16
File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i v3....................................................................................16
Veritas File System (VxFS) ........................................................................................................16
Introduction.......................................................................................................................16
VxFS Features....................................................................................................................17
VxFS 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3................................................................................................19
Architecture of VxFS...........................................................................................................19
Extent Based Allocation......................................................................................................19
Storage Management for Oracle..............................................................................................19
2 System Requirements.................................................................................20
Software Dependency.............................................................................................................20
Other Required HP-UX Software................................................................................................20
OS Version............................................................................................................................20
Patch Requirements ................................................................................................................20
Recommended Software..........................................................................................................22
Required Packages for Veritas Enterprise Administrator................................................................22
Software Depot Content..........................................................................................................22
License Bundles......................................................................................................................23
Disk Space Requirements.........................................................................................................24
Disk Space Requirements for VxFS 5.0.1...............................................................................24
Disk Space Requirements for VxVM 5.0.1..............................................................................24
Disk Space Requirements for SMO.......................................................................................24
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