Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0 AdministratorÆs Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

207Command summary
Table F-2 Creating and administering application volumes
Command Description
vxassist [-g diskgroup ] [-b] \
maxsize [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Determines the maximum volume size.
See “Determining the maximum volume
size” on page 63.
vxassist [-g
diskgroup ] \
[-P
storage_pool ] [-b] \
make
volume length \
[storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Creates a volume.
See “Creating volumes” on page 64.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
[-P
storage_pool ] [-b] \
make
volume length \
capability=’DataMirroring’ \
init=active
Creates a volume with 2 mirrors and makes
it immediately available for use.
See “Creating a mirrored volume” on
page 66.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
[-P
storage_pool ] [-b] \
make
volume length \
capability=’Striping(ncols=
N )’
Creates a striped volume with N columns.
See “Creating a striped volume” on page 67.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
[-P
storage_pool ] [-b] \
make
volume length \
capability=’PrefabricatedRaid5’\
rules=’confineto \
"VendorName"="
Name "’
Creates a RAID-5 volume on a device that is
exported by an array made by a specified
vendor.
See “Creating a RAID-5 volume on
prefabricated storage” on page 68.
vxassist -M make <
filename Creates multiple volumes from a
specification file.
See “Creating multiple volumes as a
volume group” on page 71.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] maxgrow\
volume [storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Determines the maximum growable size of
a volume.
See “Determining the maximum size of a
volume” on page 77.
vxassist [-g diskgroup] \
{growby | growto}\
volume length \
[storage_specification] \
[attribute=value ...]
Grows a volume.
See “Increasing the size of a volume to a
specified length” on page 77.
See “Increasing the size of a volume by a
specified amount” on page 77.