VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Creating a Volume
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When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
click OK.
Options • To place the volume on a specific disk(s), click
Assign Disks and select the disks you want to use
from the Space Allocation dialog box.
• To place a file system on the volume, click Add
File System and specify the file system type and
mount point in the Add File System dialog box.
• To enable Dirty Region Logging (DRL) for the
volume, select Enable Logging. The Volume
Manager adds an appropriate number of logs to
the volume.
• To clear the volume before enabling it for general
use, select Initialize Zero.
• To prevent the creation of a layered volume,
select No Layered Volumes. In cases where a
layered volume layout is appropriate, the Volume
Manager can create a layered volume when a
non-layered layout is specified. This option
ensures that the volume has a non-layered
layout. If a layered (Pro) layout is selected, this
option is ignored.
• To add a comment attribute for the volume, type
the information in the Comment field.
Notes:
• This task requires a disk group name, volume name, volume size, and
volume layout.
• A mirrored volume requires at least two disks. If logging is enabled,
the volume requires at least one additional disk.
• Only concatenated or striped volumes can be mirrored.