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

Displaying volume and plex states
To display detailed information about the configuration of a volume including its
state and the states of its plexes, use the vxprint command.
To display volume and plex states
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Type the following command:
# vxprint [-g diskgroup] -hvt [volume ...]
The following example shows a disabled volume, vol, which has two clean
plexes, vol-01 and vol-02, each with a single subdisk:
# vxprint -g mydg -hvt vol
Disk group: mydg
V NAME RVG/VSET/CO KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL PREFPLEX UTYPE
PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT NCOL/WID MODE
SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFSLENGTH [COL/]OFF DEVICE MODE
SV NAME PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYRLENGTH [COL/]OFF AM/NM MODE
SC NAME PLEX CACHE DISKOFFSLENGTH [COL/]OFF DEVICE MODE
DC NAME PARENTVOL LOGVOL
SP NAME SNAPVOL DCO
v vol - DISABLED ACTIVE 212880 SELECT - fsgen
pl vol-01 vol DISABLED CLEAN 212880 CONCAT - RW
sd mydg11-01 vol-01 mydg11 0 212880 0 c1t0d0 ENA
pl vol-02 vol DISABLED CLEAN 212880 CONCAT - RW
sd mydg12-01 vol-02 mydg12 0 212880 0 c1t1d0 ENA
See the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide for a description of
the possible plex and volume states.
The plex state cycle
Changing plex states are part of normal operations, and do not necessarily indicate
abnormalities that must be corrected. A clear understanding of the various plex
states and their interrelationship is necessary if you want to be able to perform
any recovery procedures.
Figure 1-1 shows the main transitions that take place between plex states in VxVM.
11Recovering from hardware failure
Displaying volume and plex states