VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Initialization and Setup
System Setup
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System Setup
This section has information to help you set up your system for efficient
storage management. For additional information on system setup tasks,
see the Volume Manager Storage Administrator Administrator’s Guide.
The following system setup sequence is typical and should be used as an
example. Your system requirements may differ. The system setup
guidelines provide helpful information for specific setup configurations.
Example System Setup Sequence
The following list describes typical activities you can use when setting up
your storage management system.
Initial Setup
Step 1. Place disks under Volume Manager control.
Step 2. Create new disk groups (if you do not want to use rootdg or you want
other disk groups).
Step 3. Create volumes.
Step 4. Put file system(s) in volumes.
Options
• Designate hot-relocation spare disks.
• Add mirrors to volumes if necessary.
Maintenance
• Resize volumes and file systems.
• Add more disks/disk groups.
• Create snapshots.