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

212 Examples of using ISP

Adding or removing columns

Add a column to a volume, and grow the volume while doing this:

# vaxassist -g exdg add column vol1 layout=grow

Add 4 columns to a volume, and grow the volume while doing this:

# vaxassist -g exdg add column vol1 ncols=4 layout=grow

Add a column, but do not grow the volume:

# vaxassist -g exdg add column vol1 layout=nogrow

Remove a column, and shrink the volume while doing this:

# vaxassist -g exdg remove column vol1 layout=shrink

Remove a column, but do not shrink the volume:

# vaxassist -g exdg remove column vol1 layout=noshrink

Adding or removing logs

Add a DCO log to a volume:

# vaxassist -g exdg addlog vol1 logtype=dco

Add a DCO log to volume vol1, and make the new log like the existing log p1:

# vaxassist -g exdg addlog vol1 lognames=p1 logtype=dco

Remove a RAID-5 log from a volume:

# vaxassist -g exdg remove log vol1 logtype=raid5

Remove the RAID-5 log named p1 from a volume:

# vaxassist -g exdg remove log vol1 lognames=p1 logtype=raid5

Evacuating data from a volume

Evacuate subdisk sd01 from the volume vol1:

# vaxassist -g exdg evacuate subdisk vol1 sd=sd01

Evacuate subdisks sd11 and sd12 from volume vol1:

# vaxassist -g exdg evacuate subdisk vol1 sd=sd11,sd12

Evacuate disks disk01 and disk01 from volume vol1:

# vaxassist -g exdg evacuate disk vol1 \!disk01 \!disk02

Evacuate columns 4 and 7 of volume vol1:

# vaxassist -g exdg evacuate column vol1 columnnames=4,7

Evacuate mirror p1 of volume vol1:

# vaxassist -g exdg evacuate mirror vol1 plexnames=p1

Evacuate columns 3 and 4 of mirror p1 from volume vol1:

# vaxassist -g exdg evacuate column vol1 columnnames=3,4 \

plexnames=p1