Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

Reclamation of storage on thin reclamation arrays .......................... 343
Identifying thin and thin reclamation LUNs .............................. 343
How reclamation on a deleted volume works ............................. 344
Thin Reclamation of a disk, a disk group, or an enclosure ............. 345
Thin Reclamation of a file system ............................................ 346
Triggering space reclamation ................................................. 347
Monitoring Thin Reclamation using the vxtask command .................. 347
Using SmartMove with Thin Provisioning ....................................... 348
Admin operations on an unmounted VxFS thin volume ..................... 349
Stopping a volume ...................................................................... 349
Putting a volume in maintenance mode .................................... 350
Starting a volume ....................................................................... 350
Resizing a volume ....................................................................... 351
Resizing volumes with vxresize ............................................... 352
Resizing volumes with vxassist ............................................... 353
Resizing volumes with vxvol ................................................... 354
Adding a mirror to a volume ........................................................ 355
Mirroring all volumes ........................................................... 355
Mirroring volumes on a VM disk ............................................. 356
Removing a mirror ..................................................................... 357
Adding logs and maps to volumes .................................................. 358
Preparing a volume for DRL and instant snapshots ........................... 359
Specifying storage for version 20 DCO plexes ............................ 360
Using a DCO and DCO volume with a RAID-5 volume .................. 361
Determining the DCO version number ...................................... 362
Determining if DRL is enabled on a volume ............................... 363
Determining if DRL logging is active on a volume ....................... 364
Disabling and re-enabling DRL ................................................ 364
Removing support for DRL and instant snapshots from a
volume ......................................................................... 364
Adding traditional DRL logging to a mirrored volume ....................... 365
Removing a traditional DRL log ............................................... 366
Upgrading existing volumes to use version 20 DCOs ......................... 366
Setting tags on volumes ............................................................... 368
Changing the read policy for mirrored volumes ................................ 370
Removing a volume .................................................................... 371
Moving volumes from a VM disk ................................................... 372
Enabling FastResync on a volume .................................................. 373
Checking whether FastResync is enabled on a volume ................. 374
Disabling FastResync ............................................................ 374
Performing online relayout .......................................................... 375
Permitted relayout transformations ......................................... 375
Specifying a non-default layout ............................................... 378
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