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

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Active/Active 122
Active/Passive 121
adding disks to DISKS category 87
adding vendor-supplied support package 83
Asymmetric Active/Active 122
defined 21
excluding support for 86
listing excluded 87
listing supported 86
listing supported disks in DISKS category 87
multipathed 22
re-including support for 87
removing disks from DISKS category 89
removing vendor-supplied support package 84
disk drives
variable geometry 501
disk duplexing 42, 247
disk groups
activating shared 418
activation in clusters 393
adding disks to 164
avoiding conflicting minor numbers on import 179
boot disk group 159
bootdg 159
checking for non-imported 442
checking initialized disks 442
checking number of configuration copies in 442
checking on disk config size 442
checking size of configuration database 441
checking version number 442
clearing locks on disks 178
cluster-shareable 391
compatible with CDS 163
configuration backup and restoration 205
configuring site consistency on 427
configuring site-based allocation on 426
converting to private 417
creating 163
creating shared 415
creating with old version number 204
default disk group 159
defaultdg 159
defaults file for shared 393
defined 27
deporting 165
designating as shareable 391
destroying 200
determining the default disk group 160
disabling 199
displaying boot disk group 160
displaying default disk group 160
displaying free space in 162
displaying information about 161
displaying version of 203
effect of size on private region 158
elimination of rootdg 157
failure policy 397
features supported by version 202
forcing import of 179
free space in 374
impact of number of configuration copies on
performance 461
importing 167
importing as shared 416
importing forcibly 417
importing with cloned disks 169
joining 189, 198
joining in clusters 418
layout of DCO plexes 192
limitations of move, split, and join 191
listing objects affected by a move 192
listing shared 414
making site consistent 431
moving between systems 177
moving disks between 176, 195
moving licensed EMC disks between 195
moving objects between 188, 195
moving objects in clusters 417
names reserved by system 159
nodg 159
number of spare disks 445
private in clusters 391
recovering destroyed 200
recovery from failed reconfiguration 190
removing disks from 164
renaming 175
reorganizing 187
reserving minor numbers 179
restarting moved volumes 196, 197, 199
root 28
rootdg 28, 157
serial split brain condition 182
setting connectivity policies in clusters 419
setting default disk group 160
setting failure policies in clusters 419
setting number of configuration copies 462
shared in clusters 391
specifying to commands 159