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

VxVM Interfaces
VxVM provides the following interfaces:
• Command-Line Interface
• Menu-driven vxdiskadm utility
• Veritas Enterprise Administrator
Command-Line Interface
As a superuser, you can administer and configure volumes and other VxVM objects using the
supported vx* commands.
Menu-driven utility
The vxdiskadm utility provides an easy to use menu driven interface for common high-level
operations on disks and disk groups.
Veritas Enterprise Administrator
The Veritas™ Enterprise Administrator (VEA) is the graphical user interface for administering
disks, volumes, and file systems on local and remote machines.
File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i v3
Table 1-1 discusses the file systems that are supported on HP-UX 11i v3.
Table 1-1 Supported File Systems on HP-UX 11i v 3
DescriptionFile System Type
HFS is derived from the UNIX File System, the original BSD file system.Hierarchical File System (HFS)
The Veritas File System is an extent-based, intent logging file system from Symantec
Corporation.
Veritas File System (VxFS)
The CD file system enables you to read and write to compact disc media.Compact Disk File System
(CDFS)
AutoFS/Automounter mounts directories automatically when users or processes
request access to them. AutoFS also unmounts the directories automatically if they
remain idle for a specified period of time.
AutoFS
Network File System (NFS) provides transparent access to files on the network. An
NFS server makes a directory available to other hosts on the network by “sharing”
the directory.
Network File System (NFS)
The Cache File System (CacheFS) is a general purpose file system caching mechanism
that improves server performance and scalability by reducing server and network
load.
CacheFS
Veritas File System (VxFS)
Introduction
The Veritas File System (VxFS) is a high availability, high performance, commercial grade file
system that provides features such as transaction based journaling, fast recovery, extent-based
allocation, and online administrative operations, such as backup, resizing, and defragmentation
of the file system. It provides high performance and easy manageability required by
mission-critical applications, where high availability is critical. It increases the I/O performance
and provides structural integrity.
The Veritas File System version (VxFS ) is the vxfs file system for HP-UX 11i v3 release.
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