Veritas 5.0.1 Installation Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-2464, September 2012)

Contents
About this Document......................................................................................7
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................7
Document Organization............................................................................................................7
Typographic Conventions...........................................................................................................7
Related Information...................................................................................................................8
Technical Support.....................................................................................................................8
HP Welcomes Your Comments....................................................................................................9
1 Introduction.............................................................................................10
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i v3...........................................................................10
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) .............................................................................................11
Introduction.......................................................................................................................11
VxVM Features..................................................................................................................11
VxVM 5.0.1 on HP–UX 11i v3..............................................................................................13
Architecture of VxVM.........................................................................................................13
VxVM Daemons................................................................................................................14
VxVM Objects...................................................................................................................14
Volume Layouts in VxVM.....................................................................................................15
VxVM Storage Layouts........................................................................................................15
Concatenation and Spanning.........................................................................................15
Striping (RAID-0)...........................................................................................................15
Mirroring (RAID-1).........................................................................................................15
Striping Plus Mirroring (Mirrored-Stripe or RAID-0+1)..........................................................15
Mirroring Plus Striping (Striped-Mirror, RAID-1+0 or RAID-10)..............................................15
RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)............................................................................................16
VxVM Interfaces................................................................................................................16
Command-Line Interface.................................................................................................16
Menu-driven utility.........................................................................................................16
Veritas Enterprise Administrator.......................................................................................16
File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i v3....................................................................................16
Veritas File System (VxFS) ........................................................................................................17
Introduction.......................................................................................................................17
VxFS Features....................................................................................................................17
VxFS 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3................................................................................................19
Architecture of VxFS...........................................................................................................19
Extent Based Allocation......................................................................................................20
Storage Management for Oracle..............................................................................................20
2 System Requirements.................................................................................21
Software Dependency.............................................................................................................21
Other Required HP-UX Software................................................................................................21
OS Version............................................................................................................................21
Patch Requirements ................................................................................................................21
Recommended Software..........................................................................................................23
Required Packages for Veritas Enterprise Administrator................................................................23
Software Depot Content..........................................................................................................23
License Bundles......................................................................................................................24
Disk Space Requirements.........................................................................................................25
Disk Space Requirements for VxFS 5.0.1...............................................................................25
Disk Space Requirements for VxVM 5.0.1..............................................................................25
Disk Space Requirements for SMO.......................................................................................25
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