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

286 Administering volumes
Performing online relayout
Permitted relayout transformations
The tables below give details of the relayout operations that are possible for each type of
source storage layout.
Table 8-2 Supported relayout transformations for concatenated volumes
Relayout to From concat
concat
No.
concat-mirror
No. Add a mirror, and then use vxassist convert instead.
mirror-concat
No. Add a mirror instead.
mirror-stripe
No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to striped-mirror volume
instead.
raid5
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.
stripe
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.
stripe-mirror
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.
Table 8-3 Supported relayout transformations for concatenated-mirror volumes
Relayout to From concat-mirror
concat
No. Use vxassist convert, and then remove unwanted mirrors from
the resulting mirrored-concatenated volume instead.
concat-mirror
No.
mirror-concat
No. Use vxassist convert instead.
mirror-stripe
No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to striped-mirror volume
instead.
raid5
Yes.
stripe
Yes. This removes a mirror and adds striping. The stripe width and number of
columns may be defined.
stripe-mirror
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be defined.