Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Non-persistent FastResync ...................................................... 67
Persistent FastResync ............................................................. 67
DCO volume versioning ........................................................... 68
FastResync limitations ............................................................ 73
Hot-relocation ............................................................................. 74
Volume sets ................................................................................ 74
Chapter 2 Administering disks ............................................................ 75
About disk management ................................................................ 76
Disk devices ................................................................................ 76
Disk device naming in VxVM .................................................... 77
Private and public disk regions ................................................. 79
Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices ........................ 81
Partial device discovery ........................................................... 81
Discovering disks and dynamically adding disk arrays .................. 83
Third-party driver coexistence ................................................. 85
How to administer the Device Discovery Layer ............................ 85
Disks under VxVM control ............................................................. 97
Changing the disk-naming scheme .................................................. 98
Examples of using vxddladm to change the naming scheme ......... 100
Displaying the disk-naming scheme ......................................... 102
Regenerating persistent device names ...................................... 102
Changing device naming for TPD-controlled enclosures .............. 103
Persistent simple or nopriv disks with enclosure-based
naming ......................................................................... 103
Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and
OS-based disk names ............................................................. 106
Disk installation and formatting ................................................... 106
Displaying or changing default disk layout attributes ........................ 107
Adding a disk to VxVM ................................................................ 107
Disk reinitialization .............................................................. 111
Using vxdiskadd to put a disk under VxVM control ..................... 112
Rootability ................................................................................ 112
VxVM root disk volume restrictions ......................................... 113
Root disk mirrors ................................................................. 114
Booting root volumes ............................................................ 114
Setting up a VxVM root disk and mirror .................................... 115
Creating an LVM root disk from a VxVM root disk ...................... 116
Adding swap volumes to a VxVM rootable system ....................... 117
Adding persistent dump volumes to a VxVM rootable
system .......................................................................... 118
Removing a persistent dump volume ........................................ 119
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