Veritas Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers: Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Overview of CDS .................................................................. 11
General concepts ......................................................................... 11
Shared data across platforms ................................................... 12
Disk drive sector size .............................................................. 12
Block size issues .................................................................... 13
Operating system data ............................................................ 13
CDS disk access and format ............................................................ 13
CDS disk types ....................................................................... 14
CDS disk groups ..................................................................... 15
Non-CDS disk groups .................................................................... 17
Disk group alignment ................................................................... 17
Alignment values ................................................................... 18
Object alignment during volume creation ................................... 19
Chapter 2 Setting up your system ...................................................... 21
Creating CDS disks from uninitialized disks ...................................... 21
Creating CDS disks by using vxdisksetup .................................... 21
Creating CDS disks by using vxdiskadm ...................................... 22
Creating CDS disks from initialized VxVM disks ................................ 22
Creating a CDS disk from a disk that is not in a disk group ............. 22
Creating a CDS disk from a disk that is already in a disk
group ............................................................................. 23
Creating CDS disk groups .............................................................. 23
Creating a CDS disk group by using vxdg init ............................... 23
Creating a CDS disk group by using vxdiskadm ............................ 23
Converting non-CDS disks to CDS disks ............................................ 24
Converting a non-CDS disk group to a CDS disk group ......................... 25
Side effects of conversion ........................................................ 27
Verifying licensing ....................................................................... 27
Defaults files ............................................................................... 28
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