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

Specifying a plex for relayout ................................................. 379
Tagging a relayout operation .................................................. 379
Viewing the status of a relayout .............................................. 380
Controlling the progress of a relayout ...................................... 380
Converting between layered and non-layered volumes ...................... 381
Adding a RAID-5 log ................................................................... 382
Adding a RAID-5 log using vxplex ............................................ 383
Removing a RAID-5 log .......................................................... 383
Chapter 10 Creating and administering volume sets ...................... 385
About volume sets ...................................................................... 385
Creating a volume set .................................................................. 386
Adding a volume to a volume set ................................................... 387
Removing a volume from a volume set ........................................... 387
Listing details of volume sets ........................................................ 387
Stopping and starting volume sets ................................................. 388
Raw device node access to component volumes ................................ 389
Enabling raw device access when creating a volume set ............... 390
Displaying the raw device access settings for a volume set ........... 391
Controlling raw device access for an existing volume set ............. 391
Chapter 11 Configuring off-host processing ..................................... 393
About off-host processing solutions ............................................... 393
Implemention of off-host processing solutions ................................ 394
Implementing off-host online backup ....................................... 395
Implementing decision support ............................................... 399
Chapter 12 Administering hot-relocation .......................................... 405
About hot-relocation ................................................................... 405
How hot-relocation works ............................................................ 406
Partial disk failure mail messages ............................................ 409
Complete disk failure mail messages ........................................ 410
How space is chosen for relocation .......................................... 411
Configuring a system for hot-relocation ......................................... 412
Displaying spare disk information ................................................. 412
Marking a disk as a hot-relocation spare ......................................... 413
Removing a disk from use as a hot-relocation spare .......................... 414
Excluding a disk from hot-relocation use ........................................ 415
Making a disk available for hot-relocation use ................................. 416
Configuring hot-relocation to use only spare disks ............................ 416
Moving relocated subdisks ........................................................... 417
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