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

Table A-5
Creating and administering plexes (continued)
DescriptionCommand
Creates a striped or RAID-5 plex.
See “Creating a striped plex”
on page 260.
Example:
# vxmake -g mydg plex pl-01 \
layout=stripe stwidth=32 \
ncolumn=2 \
sd=mydg01-01,mydg02-01
vxmake [-g diskgroup] plex plex \
layout=stripe|raid5 stwidth=W \
ncolumn=N \
sd=subdisk1[,subdisk2,...]
Attaches a plex to an existing volume.
See “Attaching and associating plexes”
on page 265.
See “Reattaching plexes” on page 268.
Example:
# vxplex -g mydg att vol01 \
vol01-02
vxplex [-g diskgroup] att volume plex
Detaches a plex.
See “Detaching plexes” on page 267.
Example:
# vxplex -g mydg det vol01-02
vxplex [-g diskgroup] det plex
Takes a plex offline for maintenance.
See “Taking plexes offline” on page 266.
Example:
# vxmend -g mydg off vol02-02
vxmend [-g diskgroup] off plex
Re-enables a plex for use.
See “Reattaching plexes” on page 268.
Example:
# vxmend -g mydg on vol02-02
vxmend [-g diskgroup] on plex
559Using Veritas Volume Manager commands
About Veritas Volume Manager commands