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

Creating and administering

volume sets

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About volume sets

■ Creating a volume set

■ Adding a volume to a volume set

■ Listing details of volume sets

■ Stopping and starting volume sets

■ Removing a volume from a volume set

■ Raw device node access to component volumes

About volume sets

Veritas File System (VxFS) uses volume sets to implement its Multi-Volume

Support and Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) features. For more information on

DST, see the Veritas File System Administrator's Guide.

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) provides the vxvset command to create and

administer volume sets.

See the vxvset(1M) manual page.

Volume sets have the following limitations:

■ A maximum of 2048 volumes can be configured in a volume set.

■ Only a Veritas File System is supported on a volume set.

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