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

Creating and administering

volume sets

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About volume sets

■ Creating a volume set

■ Adding a volume to a volume set

■ Removing a volume from a volume set

■ Listing details of volume sets

■ Stopping and starting volume sets

■ Raw device node access to component volumes

About volume sets

Veritas File System (VxFS) uses volume sets to implement its Multi-Volume

Support and SmartTier features.

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) provides the vxvset command to create and

administer volume sets.

See the vxvset(1M) manual page.

Volume sets have the following limitations:

■ A maximum of 2048 volumes can be configured in a volume set.

■ Only a Veritas File System is supported on a volume set.

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