Installation Guide
Contents
About this Document......................................................................................6
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................6
Document Organization............................................................................................................6
Typographic Conventions...........................................................................................................6
Related Information...................................................................................................................7
Technical Support.....................................................................................................................7
HP Welcomes Your Comments....................................................................................................8
1 Introduction...............................................................................................9
Overview................................................................................................................................9
Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i v3.............................................................................9
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) ...............................................................................................9
Introduction.........................................................................................................................9
VxVM Features..................................................................................................................10
VxVM 5.1 SP1 on HP–UX 11i v3..........................................................................................14
Architecture of VxVM.........................................................................................................14
VxVM Daemons................................................................................................................15
VxVM Objects...................................................................................................................15
Volume Layouts in VxVM.....................................................................................................16
VxVM Storage Layouts........................................................................................................16
Concatenation and Spanning.........................................................................................16
Striping (RAID-0)...........................................................................................................16
Mirroring (RAID-1).........................................................................................................16
Striping Plus Mirroring (Mirrored-Stripe or RAID-0+1)..........................................................16
Mirroring Plus Striping (Striped-Mirror, RAID-1+0 or RAID-10)..............................................16
RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)............................................................................................17
VxVM Interfaces................................................................................................................17
Command-Line Interface.................................................................................................17
Menu-driven utility.........................................................................................................17
Veritas Enterprise Administrator.......................................................................................17
File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i v3....................................................................................17
Veritas File System (VxFS) ........................................................................................................18
Introduction.......................................................................................................................18
VxFS Features....................................................................................................................18
VxFS 5.1 SP1 on HP-UX 11i v3.............................................................................................21
Architecture of VxFS...........................................................................................................21
Extent Based Allocation......................................................................................................22
2 System Requirements.................................................................................23
Software Dependency.............................................................................................................23
OS Version............................................................................................................................23
Patch Requirements ................................................................................................................23
Required Software..................................................................................................................24
Required Packages for Veritas Enterprise Administrator................................................................24
Software Depot Content..........................................................................................................24
License Bundles......................................................................................................................25
Disk Space Requirements.........................................................................................................26
Disk Space Requirements for VxFS 5.1 SP1............................................................................26
Disk Space Requirements for VxVM 5.1 SP1..........................................................................26
Disk Space Requirements for CVM.......................................................................................26
3 Installing the Veritas 5.1 SP1 Products..........................................................27
Mounting the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Media................................................27
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