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

■ Performing online relayout
■ Converting between layered and non-layered volumes
■ Using Thin Provisioning
About volume administration
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) lets you perform common maintenance tasks
on volumes. These include the following:
■ Displaying volume information
■ Monitoring tasks
■ Resizing volumes
■ Adding and removing logs
■ Adding and removing mirrors
■ Removing volumes
■ Changing the layout of volumes without taking them offline
You can also use the Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature to create
and administer application volumes. These volumes are very similar to the
traditional VxVM volumes that are described in this chapter. However, there are
significant differences between the functionality of the two types of volumes that
prevent them from being used interchangeably.
See the Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator’s
Guide.
Note: To use most VxVM commands, you need superuser or equivalent privileges.
Displaying volume information
You can use the vxprint command to display information about how a volume is
configured.
To display the volume, plex, and subdisk record information for all volumes in
the system, use the following command:
# vxprint -hvt
You can also apply the vxprint command to a single disk group:
Administering volumes
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