VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

Understanding VERITAS Volume Manager
Online Relayout
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• Change the column stripe width in a volume. See Figure 1-31,
“Example of Increasing the Stripe Width for the Columns in a
Volume,” below.
Figure 1-31 Example of Increasing the Stripe Width for the Columns in a
Volume
For details of how to perform online relayout operations, see “Performing
Online Relayout” on page 304.
Permitted Relayout Transformations
The tables below give details of the relayout operations that are possible
for each type of source storage layout.
Table 1-1 Supported Relayout Transformations for Unmirrored
Concatenated Volumes
Relayout to From concat
concat No.
concat-mirro
r
No. Add a mirror, and then use vxassist convert
instead.
mirror-conca
t
No. Add a mirror instead.
mirror-strip
e
No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to
striped-mirror volume instead.
raid5 Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be
defined.
stripe Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be
defined.
stripe-mirro
r
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be
defined.