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

Creating volumes

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About volume creation

■ Types of volume layouts

■ Creating a volume

■ Using vxassist

■ Discovering the maximum size of a volume

■ Disk group alignment constraints on volumes

■ Creating a volume on any disk

■ Creating a volume on specific disks

■ Creating a mirrored volume

■ Creating a volume with a version 0 DCO volume

■ Creating a volume with a version 20 DCO volume

■ Creating a volume with dirty region logging enabled

■ Creating a striped volume

■ Mirroring across targets, controllers or enclosures

■ Mirroring across media types (SSD and HDD)

■ Creating a RAID-5 volume

■ Creating tagged volumes

■ Creating a volume using vxmake

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