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

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upgrading 148
FMR. See FastResync
foreign devices
adding 90
formatting disks 96
free space in disk groups 374
fullinst snapshot type 335
full-sized instant snapshots 299
creating 319
creating volumes for use as 315
G
GAB 400
global detach policy 395
Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast (GAB) 400
guidelines
DRL 501
mirroring 500
RAID-5 502
H
hasdcolog attribute 285
HFS file systems
resizing 277
highwatermark attribute 314
host failures 433
hostnames
checking 445
hot-relocation
complete failure messages 374
configuration summary 375
daemon 370
defined 75
detecting disk failure 370
detecting plex failure 370
detecting RAID-5 subdisk failure 370
excluding free space on disks from use by 378
limitations 371
making free space on disks available for use by 379
marking disks as spare 377
modifying behavior of 385
notifying users other than root 385
operation of 369
partial failure messages 373
preventing from running 385
reducing performance impact of recovery 385
removing disks from spare pool 378
Storage Expert rules 445
subdisk relocation 375
subdisk relocation messages 380
unrelocating subdisks 380
unrelocating subdisks using vxassist 382
unrelocating subdisks using vxdiskadm 381
unrelocating subdisks using vxunreloc 382
use of free space in disk groups 374
use of spare disks 374
use of spare disks and free space 374
using only spare disks for 380
vxrelocd 370
HP disk format 81
hpdisk format 81
I
I/O
gathering statistics for DMP 138
kernel threads 19
scheduling on secondary paths 145
throttling 124
use of statistics in performance tuning 457
using traces for performance tuning 460
I/O operations
maximum size of 467
I/O policy
displaying 141
example 145
specifying 141
I/O throttling 151
identifiers for tasks 259
idle LUNs 464
implicit failover mode 121
init attribute 253
initialization
default attributes 97
of disks 91, 97
initialization of disks 91
instant snapshots
backing up multiple volumes 325
cascaded 304
creating backups 311
creating for volume sets 326
creating full-sized 319
creating space-optimized 316
creating volumes for use as full-sized 315
displaying information about 334
dissociating 332
full-sized 299
improving performance of synchronization 337