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

Creating and administering

volume sets

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About volume sets

■ Creating a volume set

■ Adding a volume to a volume set

■ Removing a volume from a volume set

■ Listing details of volume sets

■ Stopping and starting volume sets

■ Raw device node access to component volumes

About volume sets

Veritas File System (VxFS) uses volume sets to implement its Multi-Volume

Support and SmartTier features.

For more information on SmartTier, see the Veritas Storage Foundation Advanced

Features Administrator's Guide.

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) provides the vxvset command to create and

administer volume sets.

See the vxvset(1M) manual page.

Volume sets have the following limitations:

■ A maximum of 2048 volumes can be configured in a volume set.

■ Only a Veritas File System is supported on a volume set.

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