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

Understanding VERITAS Volume Manager
Online Relayout
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stripe-mirror Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may
also be changed.
Table 1-4 Supported Relayout Transformations for
Mirrored-Concatenated Volumes
Relayout to From mirror-concat
concat No. Remove unwanted mirrors instead.
concat-mirror No. Use vxassist convert instead.
mirror-concat No.
mirror-stripe No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to
striped-mirror volume instead.
raid5 Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may
be defined. Choose a plex in the existing mirrored
volume on which to perform the relayout. The other
plexes are removed at the end of the relayout
operation.
stripe Yes.
stripe-mirror Yes.
Table 1-5 Supported Relayout Transformations for Mirrored-Stripe
Volumes
Relayout to From mirror-stripe
concat Yes.
concat-mirror Yes.
mirror-concat No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to
concatenated-mirror volume instead.
mirror-stripe No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to
striped-mirror volume instead.
Table 1-3 Supported Relayout Transformations for RAID-5 Volumes
Relayout to From raid5