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

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Table of Contents

About this Document..........................................................................................................9

Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................9

Document Organization.........................................................................................................................9

Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................9

Related Information..............................................................................................................................10

Technical Support.................................................................................................................................10

HP Welcomes Your Comments.............................................................................................................11

1 Introduction...................................................................................................................13

Overview...............................................................................................................................................13

Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i v3...................................................................................13

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) ........................................................................................................14

Introduction.....................................................................................................................................14

VxVM Features................................................................................................................................14

VxVM 5.0.1 on HP–UX 11i v3..........................................................................................................16

Architecture of VxVM.....................................................................................................................16

VxVM Daemons..............................................................................................................................16

VxVM Objects..................................................................................................................................17

Volume Layouts in VxVM...............................................................................................................17

VxVM Storage Layouts....................................................................................................................18

Concatenation and Spanning.....................................................................................................18

Striping (RAID-0).......................................................................................................................18

Mirroring (RAID-1)....................................................................................................................18

Striping Plus Mirroring (Mirrored-Stripe or RAID-0+1)............................................................18

Mirroring Plus Striping (Striped-Mirror, RAID-1+0 or RAID-10).............................................18

RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)....................................................................................................18

VxVM Interfaces..............................................................................................................................19

Command-Line Interface...........................................................................................................19

Menu-driven utility....................................................................................................................19

Veritas Enterprise Administrator...............................................................................................19

File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i v3............................................................................................19

Veritas File System (VxFS) ...................................................................................................................19

Introduction.....................................................................................................................................19

VxFS Features..................................................................................................................................20

VxFS 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3............................................................................................................22

Architecture of VxFS........................................................................................................................22

Extent Based Allocation...................................................................................................................22

Storage Management for Oracle...........................................................................................................22

2 System Requirements....................................................................................................23

Software Dependency...........................................................................................................................23

OS Version.............................................................................................................................................23

Patch Requirements .............................................................................................................................23

Recommended Software.......................................................................................................................24

Required Packages for Veritas Enterprise Administrator....................................................................24

Software Depot Content........................................................................................................................25

License Bundles.....................................................................................................................................26

Disk Space Requirements.....................................................................................................................26

Disk Space Requirements for VxFS 5.0.1.........................................................................................26

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