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

Creating volumes with associated tags ............................................. 72
Creating multiple volumes with the same prefix ................................ 72
Creating multiple volumes as a volume group .................................... 73
Creating a volume for use with snapshots and DRL ............................. 75
Chapter 4 Administering application volumes ................................. 77
About administration of application volumes .................................... 78
Resizing volumes online ................................................................ 78
Determining the maximum size of a volume ................................ 79
Increasing the size of a volume to a specified length ..................... 79
Increasing the size of a volume by a specified amount ................... 80
Reducing the size of a volume to a specified length ....................... 80
Reducing the size of a volume by a specified amount .................... 81
Growing and shrinking multiple volumes ................................... 81
Setting tags on volumes ................................................................ 81
Preparing a volume for DRL and snapshot operations ......................... 82
Removing support for DRL and snapshots from a volume .............. 83
Evacuating a volume ..................................................................... 83
Removing a volume ...................................................................... 85
Performing online relayout on a volume ........................................... 85
Transforming the capabilities of a volume online ............................... 86
Adding mirrors to a volume ........................................................... 86
Removing mirrors from a volume .................................................... 86
Adding columns to a volume .......................................................... 87
Removing columns from a volume ................................................... 88
Changing the stripe unit size of volumes .......................................... 88
Adding logs to a volume ................................................................ 89
Removing logs from a volume ......................................................... 90
Monitoring and controlling ISP tasks ............................................... 90
Reversing volume transformations .................................................. 91
Finding volumes that use specified capabilities or templates ................ 92
Verifying the intent of a volume ..................................................... 92
Displaying the rules associated with volumes .................................... 92
Migrating non-ISP volumes to ISP volumes ....................................... 93
Migrating ISP volumes to non-ISP volumes ....................................... 95
Chapter 5 Administering instant snapshots ..................................... 97
About administration of instant snapshots ....................................... 97
Limitations of volume snapshots ..................................................... 98
Preparing storage pools for full-sized instant snapshots ...................... 99
Creating a volume for use as a full-sized instant or linked break-off
snapshot ............................................................................. 100
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