VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Appendix E, Command Summary 183
Creating and Administering Application Volumes
Command Description
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] [-b] \
maxsize [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Determines the maximum volume size. See
“Determining the Maximum Volume Size” on
page 47.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] [-b] make \
volume length [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Creates a volume. See “Creating Volumes” on
page 47.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] [-b] make \
volume length \
capability=’DataMirroring’ \
init=active
Creates a volume with 2 mirrors and makes it
immediately available for use. See “Creating a
Mirrored Volume” on page 48.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length \
capability=’Striping(ncols=N)’
Creates a striped volume with N columns. See
“Creating a Striped Volume” on page 49.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length \
capability=’PrefabricatedRaid5’ \
rules=’confineto \
"VendorName"="Name"’
Creates a RAID-5 volume on a device that is exported
by an array made by a specified vendor. See “Creating
a RAID-5 Volume on Prefabricated Storage” on
page 50.
vxvoladm -M make < filename Creates multiple volumes from a specification file.
See “Creating Multiple Volumes as a Volume Group”
on page 53.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] maxgrow \
volume [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Determines the maximum growable size of a volume.
See “Determining the Maximum Size of a Volume”
on page 58.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] \
{growby | growto}\
volume length [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Grows a volume. See “Increasing the Size of a
Volume to a Specified Length” on page 58 and
“Increasing the Size of a Volume by a Specified
Amount” on page 59.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] \
{shrinkby | shrinkto}\
volume length [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Shrinks a volume. See “Reducing the Size of a
Volume to a Specified Length” on page 59 and
“Reducing the Size of a Volume by a Specified
Amount” on page 59.
vxvoladm [-g diskgroup] evacuate \
disk volume length !dm:dmname ...
Evacuates a volume from one or more specified disks.
See “Evacuating a Volume” on page 61.