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

Chapter

Using Storage Expert

System administrators often find that gathering and interpreting data about large and

complex configurations can be a difficult task. Veritas Storage Expert (vxse) is designed to

help in diagnosing configuration problems with VxVM.

Storage Expert consists of a set of simple commands that collect VxVM configuration

data and compare it with “best practice.” Storage Expert then produces a summary report

that shows which objects do not meet these criteria and makes recommendations for

VxVM configuration improvements.

These user-configurable tools help you as an administrator to verify and validate systems

and non-optimal configurations in both small and large VxVM installations.

See the following sections for more information about Veritas Storage Expert:

■ How Storage Expert works

■ Before using Storage Expert

■ Running Storage Expert

■ Identifying configuration problems using Storage Expert

■ Rule definitions and attributes

For more information about Storage Expert, see the

vxse(1M) manual page.