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

Monitoring and controlling tasks .................................................. 310
Specifying task tags .............................................................. 310
Managing tasks with vxtask ................................................... 311
Stopping a volume ...................................................................... 313
Putting a volume in maintenance mode .................................... 313
Starting a volume ....................................................................... 314
Adding a mirror to a volume ........................................................ 315
Mirroring all volumes ........................................................... 315
Mirroring volumes on a VM disk ............................................. 315
Removing a mirror ..................................................................... 316
Adding logs and maps to volumes .................................................. 317
Preparing a volume for DRL and instant snapshots ........................... 318
Specifying storage for version 20 DCO plexes ............................ 319
Using a DCO and DCO volume with a RAID-5 volume .................. 320
Determining the DCO version number ...................................... 321
Determining if DRL is enabled on a volume ............................... 322
Determining if DRL logging is active on a volume ....................... 323
Disabling and re-enabling DRL ................................................ 323
Removing support for DRL and instant snapshots from a
volume ......................................................................... 323
Upgrading existing volumes to use version 20 DCOs ......................... 324
Adding traditional DRL logging to a mirrored volume ....................... 326
Removing a traditional DRL log ............................................... 327
Adding a RAID-5 log ................................................................... 328
Adding a RAID-5 log using vxplex ............................................ 329
Removing a RAID-5 log .......................................................... 329
Resizing a volume ....................................................................... 330
Resizing volumes with vxresize ............................................... 330
Resizing volumes with vxassist ............................................... 331
Resizing volumes with vxvol ................................................... 333
Setting tags on volumes ............................................................... 334
Changing the read policy for mirrored volumes ................................ 335
Removing a volume .................................................................... 336
Moving volumes from a VM disk ................................................... 337
Enabling FastResync on a volume .................................................. 338
Checking whether FastResync is enabled on a volume ................. 339
Disabling FastResync ............................................................ 340
Performing online relayout .......................................................... 340
Permitted relayout transformations ......................................... 341
Specifying a non-default layout ............................................... 344
Specifying a plex for relayout ................................................. 345
Tagging a relayout operation .................................................. 345
Viewing the status of a relayout .............................................. 345
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