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

Non-persistent FastResync ...................................................... 64
Persistent FastResync ............................................................. 65
DCO volume versioning ........................................................... 65
FastResync limitations ............................................................ 70
Hot-relocation ............................................................................. 71
Volume sets ................................................................................ 72
Chapter 2 Provisioning new usable storage ..................................... 73
Provisioning new usable storage ..................................................... 73
Growing the existing storage by adding a new LUN ............................ 74
Growing the existing storage by growing the LUN .............................. 74
Chapter 3 Administering disks ............................................................ 77
About disk management ................................................................ 78
Disk devices ................................................................................ 78
Disk device naming in VxVM .................................................... 79
Private and public disk regions ................................................. 81
Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices ........................ 83
Partial device discovery ........................................................... 83
Discovering disks and dynamically adding disk arrays .................. 85
Third-party driver coexistence ................................................. 87
How to administer the Device Discovery Layer ............................ 87
Disks under VxVM control ............................................................. 98
Changing the disk-naming scheme .................................................. 99
Examples of using vxddladm to change the naming scheme ......... 102
Displaying the disk-naming scheme ......................................... 103
Regenerating persistent device names ...................................... 103
Changing device naming for TPD-controlled enclosures .............. 104
Persistent simple or nopriv disks with enclosure-based
naming ......................................................................... 104
About the Array Volume Identifier (AVID) attribute .......................... 106
Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and
OS-based disk names ............................................................. 107
About disk installation and formatting ........................................... 108
Displaying or changing default disk layout attributes ........................ 109
Adding a disk to VxVM ................................................................ 109
Disk reinitialization .............................................................. 113
Using vxdiskadd to put a disk under VxVM control ..................... 114
RAM disk support in VxVM .......................................................... 114
Veritas Volume Manager co-existence with Oracle Automatic Storage
Management (ASM) disks ....................................................... 115
Rootability ................................................................................ 117
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