Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

Chapter 24 Multi-volume file systems ................................................ 323
About multi-volume support ........................................................ 323
About volume types .................................................................... 324
Features implemented using multi-volume support .......................... 324
Volume availability ............................................................... 325
Creating multi-volume file systems ................................................ 326
Example of creating a multi-volume file system ......................... 326
Converting a single volume file system to a multi-volume file
system ................................................................................ 328
Adding a volume to and removing a volume from a multi-volume file
system ................................................................................ 329
Adding a volume to a multi-volume file system .......................... 329
Removing a volume from a multi-volume file system .................. 330
Forcibly removing a volume ................................................... 330
Moving volume 0 .................................................................. 330
Volume encapsulation ................................................................. 331
Encapsulating a volume ......................................................... 331
Deencapsulating a volume ..................................................... 332
Reporting file extents .................................................................. 333
Examples of reporting file extents ........................................... 333
Load balancing ........................................................................... 334
Defining and assigning a load balancing allocation policy ............ 335
Rebalancing extents .............................................................. 335
Converting a multi-volume file system to a single volume file
system ................................................................................ 336
Converting to a single volume file system ................................. 336
Chapter 25 Administering SmartTier .................................................. 339
About SmartTier ........................................................................ 339
Supported SmartTier document type definitions .............................. 341
Placement classes ....................................................................... 341
Tagging volumes as placement classes ..................................... 342
Listing placement classes ....................................................... 342
Administering placement policies .................................................. 343
Assigning a placement policy .................................................. 343
Unassigning a placement policy .............................................. 344
Analyzing the space impact of enforcing a placement
policy ........................................................................... 344
Querying which files will be affected by enforcing a placement
policy ........................................................................... 344
Enforcing a placement policy .................................................. 345
Validating a placement policy ................................................. 346
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