VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Introduction to Volume Manager
Volume Manager User Interfaces
Chapter 156
Volume Manager User Interfaces
This section briefly describes the VERITAS Volume Manager user
interfaces.
User Interface Overview
The Volume Manager supports the following user interfaces:
• Volume Manager Storage Administrator
The Storage Administrator is a graphical user interface to the Volume
Manager. The Storage Administrator provides visual elements such
as icons, menus, and dialog boxes to manipulate Volume Manager
objects. The Storage Administrator also acts as an interface to some
common file system operations. The Storage Administrator is
described in the Storage Administrator Administrator’s Guide.
• Command Line Interface
The Volume Manager command set (for example, the vxassist
command) ranges from commands requiring minimal user input to
commands requiring detailed user input. For information on the
Command Line Interface, see Chapter 3, Volume Manager
Operations,.
• Volume Manager commands range from simple commands to complex
commands requiring detailed user input. Many Volume Manager
commands require you to have an understanding of Volume Manager
concepts. Volume Manager concepts are described in this chapter.
Most Volume Manager commands require superuser or other
appropriate privileges. For a listing and explanation of Volume
Manager commands, see the “Volume Manager Commands” in the
Volume Manager Reference Guide.
• Volume Manager Support Operations
Volume Manager Support Operations interface (vxdiskadm) is a
menu-driven interface for disk and volume administration functions.
The vxdiskadm interface uses a command line main menu where you
can select storage management tasks to be performed. For more
information on the vxdiskadm interface, see “vxdiskadm Main Menu”
and “vxdiskadm Menu Description”.