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

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advanced approach to creating 230
assisted approach to creating 231
associating plexes with 221
attaching plexes to 221
backing up 295
backing up online using snapshots 311
block device files 254, 504
booting VxVM-rootable 103
changing layout online 286
changing number of columns 290
changing read policies for mirrored 281
changing stripe unit size 290
character device files 254, 504
checking for disabled 443
checking for stopped 443
checking if FastResync is enabled 285
checking redundancy of 443
combining mirroring and striping for
performance 453
combining online relayout and conversion 292
concatenated 35, 228
concatenated-mirror 45, 229
configuring exclusive open by cluster node 419, 420
configuring site consistency on 427
configuring site-based allocation on 428
converting between layered and non-layered 292
converting concatenated-mirror to mirrored-
concatenated 292
converting mirrored-concatenated to concatenated-
mirror 292
converting mirrored-stripe to striped-mirror 292
converting striped-mirror to mirrored-stripe 292
creating 230
creating concatenated-mirror 241
creating for use as full-sized instant snapshots 315
creating from snapshots 346
creating mirrored 241
creating mirrored-concatenated 241
creating mirrored-stripe 246
creating RAID-5 248
creating snapshots 342
creating striped 245
creating striped-mirror 247
creating using vxmake 251
creating using vxmake description file 252
creating with version 0 DCOs attached 242
creating with version 20 DCOs attached 244
defined 31
detaching plexes from temporarily 223
disabling FastResync 285
disconnecting plexes 222
displaying information 256
displaying information about snapshots 347
dissociating plexes from 225
dissociating version 0 DCOs from 350
DRL 501
effect of growing on FastResync maps 73
enabling FastResync on 284
enabling FastResync on new 243
excluding storage from use by vxassist 236
finding maximum size of 234
finding out maximum possible growth of 276
flagged as dirty 59
initializing contents to zero 254
initializing using vxassist 253
initializing using vxvol 254
kernel states 258
layered 43, 51, 229
limit on number of plexes 31
limitations 31
making immediately available for use 253
maximum number of 467
maximum number of data plexes 455
merging snapshots 344
mirrored 42, 228
mirrored-concatenated 43
mirrored-stripe 42, 228
mirroring across controllers 239, 247
mirroring across targets 237, 247
mirroring all 264
mirroring on disks 264
mirroring VxVM-rootable 103
moving from VM disks 282
moving to improve performance 458
names 31
naming snap 309
obtaining performance statistics 456
performance of mirrored 452
performance of RAID-5 453
performance of striped 452
performing online relayout 286
placing in maintenance mode 262
preparing for DRL and instant snapshot
operations 267
preventing recovery on restarting 263
RAID-0 38
RAID-0+1 42
RAID-1 42