VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating Volumes
Creating a Volume on Specific Disks
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This command places columns 1, 2 and 3 of the first mirror on disk01,
disk02 and disk03 respectively, and columns 1, 2 and 3 of the second
mirror on disk04, disk05 and disk06 respectively. This arrangement is
illustrated in Figure 7-1, “Example of Using Ordered Allocation to
Create a Mirrored-Stripe Volume,”
Figure 7-1 Example of Using Ordered Allocation to Create a
Mirrored-Stripe Volume
For layered volumes, vxassist applies the same rules to allocate storage
as for non-layered volumes. For example, the following command creates
a striped-mirror volume with 2 columns:
# vxassist -b -o ordered make strmirvol 10g
layout=stripe-mirror ncol=2 disk01 disk02 disk03 disk04
Striped Plex
Striped Plex
Mirror
Mirrored-Stripe
Volume
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
disk01-01 disk02-01 disk03-01
disk04-01 disk05-01 disk06-01