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

See “Displaying volume information” on page 336.

See the vxprint(1M) manual page.

Combining virtual objects in VxVM

VxVM virtual objects are combined to build volumes. The virtual objects contained

in volumes are VM disks, disk groups, subdisks, and plexes. VxVM virtual objects

are organized in the following ways:

■ VM disks are grouped into disk groups

■ Subdisks (each representing a specific region of a disk) are combined to form

plexes

■ Volumes are composed of one or more plexes

Figure 1-5 shows the connections between Veritas Volume Manager virtual objects

and how they relate to physical disks.

Understanding Veritas Volume Manager

How VxVM handles storage management