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

How VxVM Handles Storage Management

16 VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide

In “Example of a Volume with Two Plexes,” a volume, vol06, with two data plexes is

mirrored. Each plex of the mirror contains a complete copy of the volume data.

Example of a Volume with Two Plexes

Vol um e vol06 has the following characteristics:

◆ It contains two plexes named vol06-01 and vol06-02.

◆ Each plex contains one subdisk.

◆ Each subdisk is allocated from a different VM disk (disk01 and disk02).

For more information, see “Mirroring (RAID-1)” on page 25.

vol06-01

vol06

Volume with Two Plexes

Plexes

disk01-01

vol06-01

disk02-01

vol06-02