VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (August 2002)

Setting up the VxVM Environment

Use the vxinstall procedure to initialize VxVM. The vxinstall initialization

procedure:

◆ Ensures that proper licenses for the VxVM software are in place, given license keys

previously obtained from VERITAS customer support

◆ Prompts to set up the initial VxVM disk group and populate it with disks

◆ Starts the various conﬁguration, notiﬁcation, and relocation daemons used by VxVM