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

The following procedures describe how to start the vxconfigd daemon and to check whether
the deamon is enabled and running, and how to enable the daemon:
• Starting the vxconfigd Daemon
To start the vxconfigd daemon, enter the following command:
# vxconfigd
This message indicates that vxconfigd is running but not enabled:
mode: disabled
• Determining Whether the vxconfigd Daemon is Enabled
To determine whether vxconfigd is enabled, use the following command:
# vxdctl mode
The following message indicates that the vxconfigd daemon is running and enabled:
mode: enabled
This message indicates that vxconfigd is not running:
mode: not-running
• Enabling the Volume Daemon
To enable the volume daemon, enter the following command:
# vxdctl enable
Once started, vxconfigd automatically becomes a background process.
By default, vxconfigd writes error messages to the console. However, you can configure
it to write errors to a log file. For more information, see vxconfigd(1M) and vxdctl(1M).
Starting the Volume I/O Daemon
This section discusses the procedure to verify whether the vxiod daemons are running and to
start them if necessary. The volume I/O daemon (vxiod) provides extended I/O operations
without blocking calling processes. Several vxiod daemons are usually started at system boot
time after initial installation and they must be running at all times.
As the vxiod daemon is a kernel thread, is not visible using the ps command. Therefore, to
verify that vxiod daemons are running, enter the following command:
# vxiod
Following is a sample out if 16 vxiod daemons are running:
16 volume I/O daemons running
where, 16 specifies the number of vxiod daemons currently running. If vxiod daemons are
not currently running, run the following command to start the daemons:
# vxiod set 16
where, 16 is the desired number of vxiod daemons that you want to run.
HP recommends that at least one vxiod daemon runs for each CPU in the system.
For more information on the vxiod daemon, see vxiod(1M).
Enabling the Intelligent Storage Provisioning Feature
This section discusses how to enable the Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature.
If you load the allocator provider package (VRTSalloc), enter the following commands to restart
the VEA service and to enable the Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxsvcctrl stop
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxsvcctrl start
Starting the Volume I/O Daemon 41