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

Excluding a disk from hot-relocation use ........................................ 441
Making a disk available for hot-relocation use ................................. 442
Configuring hot-relocation to use only spare disks ............................ 442
Moving relocated subdisks ........................................................... 443
Moving relocated subdisks using vxdiskadm .............................. 443
Moving relocated subdisks using vxassist ................................. 445
Moving relocated subdisks using vxunreloc ............................... 445
Restarting vxunreloc after errors ............................................ 447
Modifying the behavior of hot-relocation ........................................ 448
Chapter 13 Administering cluster functionality ............................... 451
About the cluster functionality of VxVM ......................................... 451
Overview of cluster volume management ........................................ 453
Private and shared disk groups ............................................... 455
Activation modes of shared disk groups .................................... 456
Connectivity policy of shared disk groups ................................. 458
Effect of disk connectivity on cluster reconfiguration .................. 462
Limitations of shared disk groups ............................................ 463
Cluster initialization and configuration .......................................... 463
Cluster reconfiguration ......................................................... 464
Volume reconfiguration ......................................................... 466
Node shutdown .................................................................... 470
Node abort .......................................................................... 471
Cluster shutdown ................................................................. 471
Upgrading cluster functionality .................................................... 471
Dirty region logging in cluster environments ................................... 472
How DRL works in a cluster environment .................................. 473
Multiple host failover configurations ............................................. 473
Import lock ......................................................................... 474
Failover .............................................................................. 474
Corruption of disk group configuration .................................... 475
Administering VxVM in cluster environments ................................. 476
Requesting node status and discovering the master node ............. 476
Determining if a disk is shareable ............................................ 477
Listing shared disk groups ..................................................... 478
Creating a shared disk group .................................................. 479
Importing disk groups as shared ............................................. 479
Converting a disk group from shared to private .......................... 480
Moving objects between shared disk groups .............................. 481
Splitting shared disk groups ................................................... 481
Joining shared disk groups ..................................................... 481
Changing the activation mode on a shared disk group ................. 481
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