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

Appendix

Examples of using ISP

This appendix lists examples of using the vxassist and other commands to

administer the Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature.

■ Creating volumes

■ Resizing a volume

■ Adding or removing mirrors

■ Adding or removing columns

■ Adding or removing logs

■ Evacuating data from a volume

■ Segregating database components

See “Examples of using ISP from the command line” on page 45.

See the

vaxassist(1M) manual page.

Creating volumes

Create a 10-gigabyte concatenated volume:

# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g

Create a 2-way mirrored volume using rules:

# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g rules='mirror 2'

Create a 7-column striped volume using rules:

# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g rules='stripe 7'

Create a 2-way mirrored volume using the DataMirroring capability:

# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g \

capability='DataMirroring(nmirs=2)'

Create a 2-way mirrored volume with each mirror on a separate enclosure:

# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g \

capability='DataMirroring(nmirs=2),\

MirrorsOnSeparateComponents(component="Enclosure")'