Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Controlling the progress of a relayout ...................................... 346
Converting between layered and non-layered volumes ...................... 347
Using Thin Provisioning .............................................................. 348
About Thin Provisioning ........................................................ 348
About Thin Reclamation ........................................................ 348
Thin Reclamation of a disk, a disk group, or an enclosure ............. 348
Chapter 9 Administering volume snapshots ................................... 351
About volume snapshots .............................................................. 351
Traditional third-mirror break-off snapshots .................................. 353
Full-sized instant snapshots ......................................................... 354
Space-optimized instant snapshots ................................................ 356
Emulation of third-mirror break-off snapshots ................................ 357
Linked break-off snapshot volumes ................................................ 357
Cascaded snapshots .................................................................... 359
Creating a snapshot of a snapshot ........................................... 360
Creating multiple snapshots ......................................................... 362
Restoring the original volume from a snapshot ................................ 363
Creating instant snapshots ........................................................... 364
Preparing to create instant and break-off snapshots ................... 367
Creating and managing space-optimized instant snapshots .......... 371
Creating and managing full-sized instant snapshots ................... 373
Creating and managing third-mirror break-off snapshots ............ 375
Creating and managing linked break-off snapshot volumes .......... 378
Creating multiple instant snapshots ........................................ 380
Creating instant snapshots of volume sets ................................ 381
Adding snapshot mirrors to a volume ....................................... 383
Removing a snapshot mirror .................................................. 384
Removing a linked break-off snapshot volume ........................... 384
Adding a snapshot to a cascaded snapshot hierarchy .................. 384
Refreshing an instant snapshot ............................................... 385
Reattaching an instant snapshot ............................................. 385
Reattaching a linked break-off snapshot volume ........................ 386
Restoring a volume from an instant snapshot ............................ 387
Dissociating an instant snapshot ............................................. 388
Removing an instant snapshot ................................................ 389
Splitting an instant snapshot hierarchy .................................... 389
Displaying instant snapshot information .................................. 389
Controlling instant snapshot synchronization ........................... 391
Listing the snapshots created on a cache ................................... 393
Tuning the autogrow attributes of a cache ................................ 393
Growing and shrinking a cache ............................................... 395
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