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

Correcting conflicting configuration information ....................... 226
Reorganizing the contents of disk groups ........................................ 227
Limitations of disk group split and join ..................................... 231
Listing objects potentially affected by a move ............................ 232
Moving objects between disk groups ........................................ 234
Splitting disk groups ............................................................. 237
Joining disk groups ............................................................... 238
Disabling a disk group ................................................................. 240
Destroying a disk group ............................................................... 240
Recovering a destroyed disk group ........................................... 241
Upgrading a disk group ............................................................... 241
Managing the configuration daemon in VxVM ................................. 246
Backing up and restoring disk group configuration data .................... 247
Using vxnotify to monitor configuration changes ............................. 247
Chapter 5 Creating and administering subdisks ........................... 249
About subdisks .......................................................................... 249
Creating subdisks ....................................................................... 250
Displaying subdisk information .................................................... 250
Moving subdisks ........................................................................ 251
Splitting subdisks ....................................................................... 252
Joining subdisks ......................................................................... 252
Associating subdisks with plexes ................................................... 253
Associating log subdisks .............................................................. 255
Dissociating subdisks from plexes ................................................. 256
Removing subdisks ..................................................................... 256
Changing subdisk attributes ......................................................... 256
Chapter 6 Creating and administering plexes ................................ 259
About plexes .............................................................................. 259
Creating plexes .......................................................................... 260
Creating a striped plex ................................................................ 260
Displaying plex information ......................................................... 261
Plex states ........................................................................... 261
Plex condition flags .............................................................. 264
Plex kernel states ................................................................. 265
Attaching and associating plexes ................................................... 265
Taking plexes offline ................................................................... 266
Detaching plexes ........................................................................ 267
Automatic plex reattachment ....................................................... 267
Reattaching plexes ..................................................................... 268
Moving plexes ............................................................................ 269
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