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

How VxVM Handles Storage Management
10 VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide
The figure, “Connection Between Objects in VxVM” on page 10, shows the connections
between VERITAS Volume Manager virtual objects and how they relate to physical disks.
The disk group contains three VM disks which are used to create two volumes. Volume
vol01 is simple and has a single plex. Volume vol02 is a mirrored volume with two
plexes.
Connection Between Objects in VxVM
disk02
vol01
Disk Group
VM Disks
Physical Disks
Plexes
Volumes
Subdisks
devname1
vol02
vol02-01 vol02-02
vol01-01 vol02-01 vol02-02
vol01-01
disk01-01 disk02-01 disk03-01
devname3 devname2
disk01-01 disk02-01 disk3-01
disk01
disk01-01
disk03
disk03-01disk02-01