VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Understanding VERITAS Volume Manager
How VxVM Handles Storage Management
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A volume with two or more data plexes is “mirrored” and contains mirror
images of the data. See Figure 1-11, “Example of a Volume with Two
Plexes,”
Figure 1-11 Example of a Volume with Two Plexes
Each plex contains an identical copy of the volume data. For more
information, see “Mirroring (RAID-1)” on page 25.
Volume 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)
vol06
disk02-01
vol06-02
disk01-01
vol06-01
Volume