VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)
Index
431
vxdisk subcommand, 70
secondary path, 106
secondary path display, 123
sequential DRL
creating mirrored volumes with logging
enabled, 231
defined, 50
maximum number of dirty regions, 404
shared disk groups
activating, 366
activation modes, 342, 343
converting to private, 364
creating, 362
importing, 363
in clusters, 341
limitations of, 346
listing, 361
shared-read mode, 342, 343
shared-write mode, 342, 343
simple disk type, 69
simple disks
issues with enclosures, 77
size units, 179
slave nodes, 340
SmartSync, 62
disabling on shared disk groups, 404
enabling on shared disk groups, 404
snap objects, 57
snap volume naming, 58
snapabort, 51
SNAPATT plex state, 197
snapback
defined, 52
resyncfromoriginal, 59
resyncfromreplica, 59, 301
used to merge snapshot volumes, 300
snapclear
defined, 52
used to create independent volumes, 301
SNAPDIS plex state, 198
SNAPDONE plex state, 198
snapshots
and FastResync, 53
backing up multiple volumes, 299
converting plexes to, 298
creating backups, 295
creating independent volumes, 301
defining names for, 299
displaying information about, 302
merging with original volumes, 300
of RAID-5 volumes, 294
on multiple volumes, 59
removing, 298
resynchronization on snapback, 59
resynchronizing volumes from, 301
used to back up volumes online, 295
snapstart, 51
SNAPTMP plex state, 198
spanned volumes, 18
spanning, 18
spare disks
displaying, 321
marking disks as, 322
used for hot-relocation, 318
sparse plexes, 45, 184
special disk devices, 69
STALE plex state, 198
standard disk devices, 69
states
for plexes, 195
volume, 250
storage
ordered allocation of, 223, 232, 239
storage attributes and volume layout, 222
storage relayout, 38
stripe columns, 21
stripe units
changing size, 305
defined, 21
striped plexes
adding subdisks, 185
defined, 21
striped volumes
changing number of columns, 305
changing stripe unit size, 305
creating, 233
defined, 212
failure of, 21
performance, 386
specifying non-default number of columns,
234
specifying non-default stripe unit size, 234
striped-mirror volumes
benefits of, 26
converting to mirrored-stripe, 308
creating, 234
defined, 213
mirroring columns, 235
mirroring subdisks, 235
performance, 388
trigger point for mirroring, 235