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

Table A-7
Administering volumes (continued)
DescriptionCommand
Performs online relayout of a volume.
See “Performing online relayout”
on page 340.
Example:
# vxassist -g mydg relayout \
vol2 layout=stripe
vxassist [-g diskgroup] relayout \
volume [layout=layout] \
[relayout_options]
Relays out a volume as a RAID-5
volume with stripe width W and N
columns.
See “Performing online relayout”
on page 340.
Example:
# vxassist -g mydg relayout \
vol3 layout=raid5 \
stripeunit=16 ncol=4
vxassist [-g diskgroup] relayout \
volume layout=raid5 \
stripeunit=W \
ncol=N
Reverses the direction of a paused
volume relayout.
See “Volume sets” on page 74.
Example:
# vxrelayout -g mydg -o bg \
reverse vol3
vxrelayout [-g diskgroup] -o bg \
reverse volume
Converts between a layered volume and
a non-layered volume layout.
See “Converting between layered and
non-layered volumes” on page 347.
Example:
# vxassist -g mydg convert \
vol3 layout=stripe-mirror
vxassist [-g diskgroup] convert \
volume [layout=layout] \
[convert_options]
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