VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (June 2002)

Chapter 4, Volume Tasks 87
Creating a Dynamic Volume
Striped
A striped volume spreads across two or more disks. You have the option of placing a file
system on the new volume or mirroring the volume. You can create a regular striped
volume or a striped pro volume. A striped pro volume is layered and mirrored.
Layout: Choose Striped or Striped Pro for the volume layout.
In the Number of Columns field, specify the number of columns
(disks) across which the volume should be striped. A striped
volume requires at least two disks.
To specify a stripe unit size other than the default, enter the stripe
unit size in the Stripe Unit Size field. To specify a size unit, attach
an s (sectors), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes) to the
size.
Options:
- To mirror the volume, select Mirrored. In the Total Number of
Mirrors field, enter the total number of mirrors for the volume.
Note Striped pro volumes are mirrored by default.
To enable logging for a mirrored volume, select
Enable
Logging.
- To place a file system on the volume, click Create a file
system and specify the file system type and mount point in
the New File System dialog box.
- To clear the volume before enabling it for general use, select
Initialize Zero.
- To prevent the creation of a layered volume, select No
Layered Volumes. In caseswhere alayeredvolume layout is
appropriate, VxVM can create a layered volume when a
non-layered layout is specified. This option ensures that the
volume has a non-layered layout. If a layered (Pro) layout is
selected, this option is ignored.