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

Appendix C Configuring Veritas Volume Manager ........................... 581
Setup tasks after installation ........................................................ 581
Unsupported disk arrays .............................................................. 582
Foreign devices .......................................................................... 582
Initialization of disks and creation of disk groups ............................. 582
Guidelines for configuring storage ................................................. 583
Mirroring guidelines ............................................................. 584
Dirty region logging guidelines ............................................... 584
Striping guidelines ............................................................... 585
RAID-5 guidelines ................................................................ 586
Hot-relocation guidelines ....................................................... 586
Accessing volume devices ...................................................... 587
VxVM’s view of multipathed devices .............................................. 588
Cluster support .......................................................................... 588
Configuring shared disk groups ............................................... 588
Converting existing VxVM disk groups to shared disk
groups .......................................................................... 590
Glossary ............................................................................................................. 591
Index ................................................................................................................... 599
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