Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Table F-1
Creating and administering application volumes (continued)
DescriptionCommand
Creates a volume.
See “Creating volumes” on page 64.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
[-P storage_pool] [-b] \
make volume length \
[storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Creates a volume with 2 mirrors and makes
it immediately available for use.
See “Creating a mirrored volume” on page 67.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
[-P storage_pool] [-b] \
make volume length \
capability=‘DataMirroring’\
init=active
Creates a striped volume with N columns.
See “Creating a striped volume” on page 68.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
[-P storage_pool] [-b] \
make volume length \
capability=‘Striping(ncols=N)’
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 69.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
[-P storage_pool] [-b] \
make volume length \
capability=‘PrefabricatedRaid5’\
rules=‘confineto \
"VendorName"= "Name"’
Creates multiple volumes from a specification
file.
See “Creating multiple volumes as a volume
group” on page 73.
vxassist -M make < filename
Determines the maximum growable size of a
volume.
See “Determining the maximum size of a
volume” on page 79.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] maxgrow\
volume [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Command summary
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