Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

Chapter

Administering volumes

This chapter describes how to perform common maintenance tasks on volumes in Veritas

Volume Manager (VxVM). This includes displaying volume information, monitoring

tasks, adding and removing logs, resizing volumes, removing mirrors, removing volumes,

and changing the layout of volumes without taking them offline.

Note: You can also use the Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature to create

and administer application volumes. These volumes are very similar to the traditional

VxVM volumes that are described in this chapter. However, there are significant

differences between the functionality of the two types of volumes that prevents them from

being used interchangeably. Refer to the Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage

Provisioning Administrator’s Guide for more information about creating and

administering ISP application volumes.

Most VxVM commands require superuser or equivalent privileges.