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

519Index
activating shared disk groups 418
activation modes for shared disk groups 392
benefits 387
checking cluster protocol version 420
cluster protocol version number 408
cluster-shareable disk groups 391
configuration 400
configuring exclusive open of volume by node 419,
420
connectivity policies 394
converting shared disk groups to private 417
creating shared disk groups 415
designating shareable disk groups 391
detach policies 394
determining if disks are shared 414
forcibly adding disks to disk groups 417
forcibly importing disk groups 417
importing disk groups as shared 416
initialization 400
introduced 388
joining disk groups in 418
limitations of shared disk groups 399
listing shared disk groups 414
maximum number of nodes in 387
moving objects between disk groups 417
node abort 407
node shutdown 406
nodes 388
operation of DRL in 408, 409
operation of vxconfigd in 404
operation of VxVM in 388
private disk groups 391
private networks 389
protection against simultaneous writes 392
reconfiguration of 400
resolving disk status in 394
setting disk connectivity policies in 419
setting failure policies in 419
shared disk groups 391
shared objects 392
splitting disk groups in 418
upgrading cluster protocol version 421
upgrading online 407
use of DMP in 126
vol_fmr_logsz tunable 466
volume reconfiguration 403
vxclustadm 401
vxdctl 413
vxrecover 421
vxstat 422
cluster-shareable disk groups in clusters 391
columns
changing number of 290
checking number in volume 444
in striping 38
mirroring in striped-mirror volumes 247
comment
plex attribute 226
subdisk attribute 213
concatenated volumes 35, 228
concatenated-mirror volumes
converting to mirrored-concatenated 292
creating 241
defined 45
recovery 229
concatenation 35
condition flags for plexes 220
configuration backup and restoration 205
configuration changes
monitoring using vxnotify 205
configuration copies for disk group 462
configuration database
checking number of copies 442
checking size of 441
copy size 158
in private region 79
listing disks with 170
metadata 170
reducing size of 187
configuring
shared disks 505
connectivity policies 394
setting for disk groups 419
controllers
checking for disabled 445
disabling for DMP 147
disabling in DMP 130
displaying information about 135
enabling for DMP 148
mirroring across 239, 247
number 20
specifying to vxassist 236
upgrading firmware 148
controllers, mirroring guidelines 500
converting disks 91
copymaps 69
copy-on-write
used by instant snapshots 299