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

Volume Tasks
Changing a Volume Layout
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Step 4. After you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click
OK. The Relayout Status Monitor window appears. This window provides
you with the following information:
If you need to pause, abort, continue, or reverse a relayout task after you
close the Relayout Status Monitor window, you can access the Relayout
Status Monitor through the Volume Properties window.
NOTE
Options: Click Show Options to access the optional
settings for this task.
• To retain the original volume size when the
volume layout changes, click Retain
volume size at completion.
• To specify the size of the pieces of data that
are copied to temporary space during the
volume relayout, enter the size in the Temp
space size field.
• To specify additional disk space to be used
for the new volume layout (if needed),
specify the disk in the disk(s) field .
• To specify the temporary disk space to be
used during the volume layout change,
specify the disk in the temp disk(s) field.
• If the volume contains plexes with different
layouts, specify the plex to be changed to
the new layout in the Target Plex field.
Volume Name: The name of the volume that is undergoing a
layout change.
Initial Layout: The original layout of the volume.
Desired Layout: The new layout for the volume.
Status: The status of the relayout task.
% Complete: The progress of the relayout task.