VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

Known Problems and Workarounds

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database before it shrinks or grows their sizes. This causes any ongoing operation, such as

the resynchronization, to fail.

• Workaround: If the system reboots before the grow or shrink of a layered volume

completes,the volume is left with an intermediate layout. In this case, the user has to use

vxassist convert to restore the volume to its original layout.

After a layered volume is resized, the volume names, the plex names and the subdisk

names associated with the subvolumes, are changed.

Storage Administrator Issues

The following issues have been identified as VERITAS Storage Administrator problems, and

will be fixed in either patches or a future release of VxVM.

Splitter Cursor Problem

• Problem: The splitter cursor does not always go away. This can prevent the wait cursor

from being displayed. This problem is caused by a Java bug.

• Workaround: Move the cursor outside the main window and then back into the main

window.

Extraneous Scrollbar Warning

• Problem: When a dialog box, such as a disk/space allocation dialog box, is brought up, a

message similar to the following can display:

Warning:

Name: scrollbar

Class: XmScrollBar

The scrollbar page increment is less than 1.

• Workaround: This message can be ignored.

Cannot Use Storage Administrator Across Firewall

• Problem: The Storage Administrator does not support communication between the client

and server across a firewall.

• Workaround: None

Problem with Multiple Host Names

• Problem: The Storage Administrator can have trouble connecting to a host machine

(server) if multiple host names are associated with a single IP address. The following