Veritas 5.0.1 Installation Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

• Volume Snapshot
Volume Snapshots are point in time images of VxVM volumes.
VxVM 5.0.1 does not support snapshots of RAID 5 volumes.
• Dirty Region Logging
Dirty Region Logging (DRL) keeps track of the regions that have been changed because I/O
writes to a mirrored volume. The DRL uses this information to recover only those portions
of the volume that need to be recovered, thereby speeding up recovery after a system crash.
• SmartMove™ Feature
SmartMove reduces the time and I/O required to attach or reattach a plex to an existing
VxVM volume, in the specific case where a VxVM volume has a VxFS file system mounted
on it. The SmartMove feature uses the VxFS information to detect free extents and avoids
copying them.
• Enhancements to the Dynamic Multipathing Feature
This release provides a number of enhancements to the DMP features of VxVM. These
enhancements simplify administration and improve display of detailed information about
the connected storage. Following are the enhancements to the DMP feature:
— Dynamic multipathing attributes are now persistent
— Improved dynamic multipathing device naming
— Default behavior modified for I/O throttling
— Specifying a minimum number of active paths
— Enhanced listing of subpath
— Enhanced I/O statistics
— Making DMP restore options persistent
— New log file location for DMP events
— Extended device attributes displayed in the vxdisk list command
— Displaying the use_all_paths attribute for an enclosure
— Viewing information about the ASLs installed on the system
— Displaying the number of LUNs in an enclosure
— Displaying the LUN serial number
— Displaying HBA details
— New exclude and include Options for the vxdmpadm command
— New command for reporting DMP node information
— Setting attributes for all enclosures
— Support for ALUA JBOD devices
• PFTO disabled in the HP-UX Native Multipathing Devices
By default, the use of PFTO is now disabled in the HP-UX native multipathing devices. As
a result, the native multipathing disk I/O can consume additional service time to complete
an I/O successfully. In case of DMP devices, the use of PFTO is enabled by default.
• Support for LVM version 2 Volume Groups
The LVM version 2 volume groups are now partially supported. VxVM now identifies and
protects the LVM version 2 volume groups. However, the LVM version 2 volume groups
cannot be initialized or converted.
• Distributed Volume Recovery
In a Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) cluster, upon a node failure, the mirror recovery is
initiated by the CVM master. Prior to this release, the CVM master performed all the recovery
I/O tasks. Starting from this release, the CVM master can distribute recovery tasks to other
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