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

287Administering volumes
Performing online relayout
Table 8-4 Supported relayout transformations for RAID-5 volumes
Relayout to From raid5
concat
Yes.
concat-mirror
Yes.
mirror-concat
No. Use vxassist convert after relayout to concatenated-mirror
volume 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 changed.
stripe
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be changed.
stripe-mirror
Yes. The stripe width and number of columns may be changed.
Table 8-5 Supported relayout transformations for mirrored-concatenated volumes
Relayout to From mirror-concat
concat
No. Remove unwanted mirrors instead.
concat-mirror
No. Use vxassist convert instead.
mirror-concat
No.
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. Choose a plex
in the existing mirrored volume on which to perform the relayout. The other
plexes are removed at the end of the relayout operation.
stripe
Yes.
stripe-mirror
Yes.