VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Volume Manager Operations
Introduction
Chapter 384
Introduction
This chapter provides information about the VERITAS Volume Manager
command line interface (CLI). The Volume Manager command set (for
example, the vxassist command) ranges from commands requiring
minimal user input to commands requiring detailed user input. Many of
the Volume Manager commands require an understanding of Volume
Manager concepts. For more information on Volume Manager concepts,
see “Volume Manager Conceptual Overview”. Most Volume Manager
commands require access privileges.
NOTE Rootability or bringing the root disk under the VxVM control, is not
supported for the HP-UX 11i release of Volume Manager. Rootability is
supported on HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 systems.
See the chapters that follow for information on using Volume Manager
commands to perform common tasks. The vxintro(1M) manual page
also contains introductory information relating to Volume Manager
tasks.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
• “Displaying Disk Configuration Information”
• “Displaying Subdisk Information”
• “Creating Volumes”
• “Volume Manager Task Monitor”
• “Performing Online Backup”
• “Exiting the Volume Manager Support Tasks”
• “Online Relayout”
• “Hot-Relocation”
• “Volume Resynchronization”
• “Dirty Region Logging”
• “FastResync (Fast Mirror Resynchronization)”
• “Volume Manager Rootability”