VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (September 2004)

Getting Started with VxVM
System Setup Guidelines
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System Setup Guidelines
This section contains information to help you set up your system for efficient storage management.
For specific setup tasks, refer to the VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide.
The following system setup sequence is typical and is used as an example. Your system requirements
may differ. The system setup guidelines provide helpful information for specific setup configurations.
Initial Setup
Step 1. Place disks under VxVM control.
Step 2. Create new disk groups (if you do not want to use rootdg only, or you require additional disk groups).
Step 3. Create volumes.
Step 4. Put file systems on volumes.
•Options
— Designate hot-relocation spare disks.
— Add mirrors to volumes.
• Maintenance
— Resize volumes and file systems.
— Add more disks or disk groups.
— Create snapshots.
The following general guidelines are to help you understand and plan an efficient storage
management system. See the cross-references in each section for more information about the
featured guideline.