VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide

Index
450
finding out by how much can grow, 288
flagged as dirty, 44
initializing, 258
initializing contents to zero, 259
kernel states, 266
layered, 27, 36, 227
limit on number of plexes, 16
limitations, 16
making immediately available for use, 258
maximum number of, 410
maximum number of data plexes, 399
merging snapshots, 314
mirrored, 25, 226
mirrored-concatenated, 27
mirrored-stripe, 26, 226
mirroring across controllers, 240, 250
mirroring across targets, 238, 250
mirroring all, 273
mirroring on disks, 274
mirroring VxVM-rootable, 89
moving from VM disks, 296
moving to improve performance, 403
names, 16
naming snap, 57
obtaining performance statistics, 401
performance of mirrored, 396
performance of RAID-5, 398
performance of striped, 396
performing online relayout, 318
placing in maintenance mode, 271
preventing recovery on restarting, 272
RAID-0, 22
RAID-0+1, 26
RAID-1, 25
RAID-1+0, 27
RAID-10, 27
RAID-5, 30, 226
raw device files, 260
reattaching DCOs to, 282
reattaching plexes, 220
reconfiguration in clusters, 362
recovering after correctable hardware
failure, 332
removing, 295
removing DCOs from, 281
removing DRL logs, 284
removing from /etc/fstab, 295
removing mirrors from, 276
removing plexes from, 276
removing RAID-5 logs, 287
removing sequential DRL logs, 284
resizing, 288
resizing using vxassist, 290
resizing using vxresize, 289
resizing using vxvol, 292
restarting moved, 184
restrictions on VxVM-bootable, 88
resynchronizing from snapshots, 315
spanned, 19
specifying default layout, 235
specifying non-default number of columns,
248
specifying non-default relayout, 319
specifying non-default stripe unit size, 248
specifying storage for DCO plexes, 279
specifying use of storage to vxassist, 236
starting, 258, 272
states, 264
stopping, 271
stopping activity on, 295
striped, 22, 226
striped-mirror, 27, 227
Striped-Pro, 227
striping to improve performance, 404
taking multiple snapshots, 58
tracing operations, 400
trigger point for mirroring in
striped-mirror, 249
types of layout, 226
vxassist
advantages of using, 230
command usage, 230
defaults file, 231
setting default values, 231
snapback, 50
snapclear, 51
used to add a log subdisk, 206
used to add a RAID-5 log, 285
used to add DRL logs, 283
used to add mirrors to volumes, 219, 273
used to add sequential DRL logs, 283
used to change number of columns, 319
used to change stripe unit size, 319
used to configure exclusive access to a
volume, 378
used to convert between layered and
non-layered volumes, 322