Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

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Preface
The VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide provides information on how to use
VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) from the command line.
This guide is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring,
and maintaining systems under the control of VERITAS Volume Manager.
The purpose of this guide is to provide the system administrator with a thorough
knowledge of the procedures and concepts involved with volume management and
system administration using VERITAS Volume Manager. This guide includes guidelines
on how to take advantage of various advanced VxVM features, and instructions on how
to use VxVM commands to create and manipulate objects in VERITAS Volume Manager.
This guide assumes that you have a:
◆ Working knowledge of the HP-UX operating system (OS).
◆ Basic understanding of HP-UX system administration .
◆ Basic understanding of storage management.
Details on how to use the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA) can be found in the
VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Getting Started manual and VEA online help. Detailed
descriptions of the VxVM commands and utilities, their options, and details on their use
are located in the VxVM manual pages. Also see “Commands Summary” on page 421 for
a listing of the commonly used commands in VxVM together with references to their
descriptions.
Note Some features such as Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP), Cross-platform Data
Sharing (CDS) and VERITAS FlashSnap
TM
software have their own dedicated
administration guides.
Most VERITAS Volume Manager commands require superuser or other appropriate
privileges.