Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (5992-1952, August 2011)

About this Document
This document describes the Veritas™ Volume Manager (VxVM) of the Veritas 5.0 product features
supported on HP-UX 11i v3. It also describes product licensing, limitations, system requirements,
upgrading disk groups and known problems with VxVM 5.0.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for system administrators responsible for installing and configuring UNIX
systems with Veritas™ Volume Manager. Readers are expected to have knowledge of the following:
• System administration concepts
• UNIX operating system concepts
• Veritas Volume Manager concepts
Document Organization
The Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Describes the new features, licensing, system
requirements, upgrading disk group versions and known problems with VxVM 5.0.
Typographic Conventions
We use the following typographic conventions:
monospace Computer output, files, directories, software elements such as command options,
function names, and parameters. See the ls (1) manpage for more information.
italic New terms, book titles, emphasis, variables replaced with a name or value
See Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes for more information.
% C shell prompt
$ Bourne/Korn shell prompt
# Superuser prompt (all shells)
\ Continued input on the following line; you do not type this character.
[ ] In command synopsis, brackets indicates an optional argument.
ls [ -a ]
| In command synopsis, a vertical bar separates mutually exclusive arguments.
mount [ suid | nosuid ]
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Related Information
For more information on the Veritas 5.0 suite of products, see the following documents available
at http://docs.hp.com:
• Veritas 5.0 Installation Guide
• Veritas File System 5.0 Release Notes
• Veritas File System 5.0 Administrator’s Guide
• Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator’s Guide
• Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide
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