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

Creating a mirrored volume
The following command creates a 1 GB volume with the default number of two
mirrors:
# vxassist -g mydg -o intent make mir2vol 1g layout=mirror \
nmir=2 init=active
The init=active attribute makes the volume immediately available for use without
attempting to synchronize its empty plexes. The -o intent option is used to
specify that an ISP volume is required, and to create a storage pool in the disk
group if one does not already exist.
The following command creates a 1 GB volume with three mirrors:
# vxassist -g mydg -P mypool make mir3vol 1g layout=mirror \
nmir=3 init=active
In this example, the -o intent option is implicit as the -P option is used to specify
the name of the storage pool that is to be used.
Creating a mirrored volume with mirrors on separate
enclosures
The following command creates a 2 GB mirrored volume with two mirrors, and
with the mirrors located on separate enclosures:
# vxassist -g mydg -P mypool make strpvol 2g layout=mirror \
nmir=2 mirror=enclosure
Such a volume tolerates the failure of one enclosure and provides greater
reliability.
Creating a striped volume
The following command creates a 2 GB striped volume with 10 columns:
# vxassist -g mydg -P mypool make strpvol 2g layout=stripe \
ncols=10
Creating a mirrored-stripe volume with mirrors on separate
controllers
The following command creates a 2 GB mirrored-stripe volume with eight columns,
and with the mirrors located on separate controllers:
Creating application volumes
Creating volumes
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