VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating and Administering Plexes
Creating a Striped Plex
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Creating a Striped Plex
To create a striped plex, you must specify additional attributes. For
example, to create a striped plex named pl-01 with a stripe width of 32
sectors and 2 columns, use the following command:
# vxmake plex pl-01 layout=stripe stwidth=32 ncolumn=2 \
sd=disk01-01,disk02-01
To use a plex to build a volume, you must associate the plex with the
volume. For more information, see the section, “Attaching and
Associating Plexes” on page 218.
Displaying Plex Information
Listing plexes helps identify free plexes for building volumes. Use the
plex (–p) option to the vxprint command to list information about all
plexes.
To display detailed information about all plexes in the system, use the
following command:
# vxprint -lp
To display detailed information about a specific plex, use the following
command:
# vxprint -l plex
The –t option prints a single line of information about the plex. To list
free plexes, use the following command:
# vxprint -pt
The following section describes the meaning of the various plex states
that may be displayed in the STATE field of vxprint output.