HP StorageWorks XP Provisioning Manager User Guide (December 2005)

Working With OS-Based Constraints 78
Table 4-1 Maximum Setting Values for Functions Creating a Device File and File System
Item Windows®
OS
Solaris™ OS AIX® OS Linux OS
HP-UX OS
Number of volume (disk)
groups in a system
-- 255 255 99 256
(see Note 1)
Number of logical volumes
per volume group
1 1 1
(see Note 2)
1 1
Number of logical volumes
in a system
255 255 255 255 256
Number of physical volumes per
volume group
-- 32 32
(see Note 3)
32 32
Number of physical volumes per
logical volume
32 32 32
(see Note 3)
32 32
Number of file system expansion
(addition of LU) times
31 31 31
(see Note 3)
31 31
Logical volume size 2 TB 1 TB 128 GB 256 GB 2 TB
File system size 2 TB 1 TB 128 GB 256 GB 2 TB
Length of mount point path name
(characters)
244
(see Note 4)
244 244
(see Note 5)
244 244
NOTE:
•
1: The default value is 10. If you want to increase the number of volume groups, manually change the value of the
maxvgs kernel parameter according to the relevant OS documentation.
• 2: Not including logical volumes for the JFS log.
• 3: If a factor is specified (from 1 to 16) to change the maximum number of physical partitions when creating a volume
group, the maximum number changes to the result of the following formula:
• 1 divided by the value specified for the factor
• 4: In Windows
®
, this includes the number of the drive letter characters.
• 5: In the Logical Volume Manager for AIX
®
, the information about a logical volume (LVCB) stores up to 128
characters. If the size of the mount point information exceeds this value, the mount point cannot be recognized
properly. To avoid this, manually change /etc/filesystem