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

Copying volumes to plexes ........................................................... 270
Dissociating and removing plexes .................................................. 270
Changing plex attributes .............................................................. 271
Chapter 7 Creating volumes ............................................................... 273
About volume creation ................................................................ 274
Types of volume layouts .............................................................. 274
Supported volume logs and maps ............................................ 276
Creating a volume ....................................................................... 277
Advanced approach .............................................................. 277
Assisted approach ................................................................ 278
Using vxassist ............................................................................ 278
Setting default values for vxassist ........................................... 280
Using the SmartMove™ feature while attaching a plex ................ 281
Discovering the maximum size of a volume ..................................... 282
Disk group alignment constraints on volumes ................................. 282
Creating a volume on any disk ...................................................... 283
Creating a volume on specific disks ................................................ 283
Specifying ordered allocation of storage to volumes .................... 285
Creating a mirrored volume .......................................................... 288
Creating a mirrored-concatenated volume ................................ 289
Creating a concatenated-mirror volume .................................... 290
Creating a volume with a version 0 DCO volume ............................... 290
Creating a volume with a version 20 DCO volume ............................. 293
Creating a volume with dirty region logging enabled ......................... 293
Creating a striped volume ............................................................ 294
Creating a mirrored-stripe volume ........................................... 295
Creating a striped-mirror volume ............................................ 296
Mirroring across targets, controllers or enclosures ........................... 296
Creating a RAID-5 volume ............................................................ 297
Creating tagged volumes .............................................................. 299
Creating a volume using vxmake ................................................... 300
Creating a volume using a vxmake description file ...................... 302
Initializing and starting a volume .................................................. 303
Initializing and starting a volume created using vxmake .............. 303
Accessing a volume ..................................................................... 304
Chapter 8 Administering volumes ..................................................... 305
About volume administration ....................................................... 306
Displaying volume information ..................................................... 306
Volume states ...................................................................... 308
Volume kernel states ............................................................. 309
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