VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Index
447
displaying information about, 316
merging with original volumes, 314
of RAID-5 volumes, 308
on multiple volumes, 58
removing, 312
resynchronization on snapback, 58
resynchronizing volumes from, 315
used to back up volumes online, 309
SNAPTMP plex state, 215
spanned volumes, 19
spanning, 19
spare disks
displaying, 335
marking disks as, 336
used for hot-relocation, 332
sparse plexes, 204
STALE plex state, 216
states
for plexes, 213
volume, 264
storage
ordered allocation of, 237, 246, 253
storage attributes and volume layout, 236
storage relayout, 39
stripe columns, 22
stripe units
changing size, 319
defined, 22
striped plexes
adding subdisks, 205
defined, 22
striped volumes
changing number of columns, 319
changing stripe unit size, 319
creating, 247
defined, 226
failure of, 22
performance, 396
specifying non-default number of columns,
248
specifying non-default stripe unit size, 248
striped-mirror volumes
benefits of, 27
converting to mirrored-stripe, 322
creating, 248
defined, 227
mirroring columns, 249
mirroring subdisks, 249
performance, 397
trigger point for mirroring, 249
Striped-Pro volumes, 227
stripe-mirror-col-split-trigger-pt, 249
striping, 22
striping plus mirroring, 26
subdisk names, 14
subdisks
associating log subdisks, 206
associating with plexes, 204
associating with RAID-5 plexes, 205
associating with striped plexes, 205
blocks, 14
changing attributes, 209
comment attribute, 209
complete failure messages, 332
copying contents of, 201
creating, 199
defined, 14
determining failed, 331
displaying information about, 200
dissociating from plexes, 207
dividing, 202
DRL log, 46
hot-relocated, 333
hot-relocation, 61, 326
hot-relocation messages, 343
joining, 203
len attribute, 209
listing original disks after hot-relocation,
347
maximum number per plex, 411
mirroring in striped-mirror volumes, 249
moving after hot-relocation, 343
moving contents of, 201
name attribute, 209
partial failure messages, 331
putil attribute, 209
RAID-5 failure of, 327
removing from VxVM, 207, 208
restrictions on moving, 201
specifying different offsets for unrelocation,
347
splitting, 202
tutil attribute, 209
unrelocating after hot-relocation, 343
unrelocating to different disks, 346
unrelocating using vxassist, 345
unrelocating using vxdiskadm, 344
unrelocating using vxunreloc, 345
swap space