VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating Volumes

Creating a Volume

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Assisted Approach

The assisted approach takes information about what you want to

accomplish and then performs the necessary underlying tasks. This

approach requires only minimal input from you, but also permits more

detailed speciﬁcations.

Assisted operations are performed primarily through the vxassist

command or the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA). vxassist

and the VEA create the required plexes and subdisks using only the

basic attributes of the desired volume as input. Additionally, they can

modify existing volumes while automatically modifying any underlying

or associated objects.

Both vxassist and the VEA use default values for many volume

attributes, unless you provide speciﬁc values. They do not require you to

have a thorough understanding of low-level VxVM concepts, vxassist and

the VEA do not conﬂict with other VxVM commands or preclude their

use. Objects created by vxassist and the VEA are compatible and

inter-operable with objects created by other VxVM commands and

interfaces.

For more information about the VEA, see the <BookTitle>VERITAS

Volume Manager (UNIX) User’s Guide — VEA.