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

Backing up and restoring disk group configuration data .................... 266
Using vxnotify to monitor configuration changes ............................. 267
Working with existing ISP disk groups ........................................... 267
Chapter 7 Creating and administering subdisks and
plexes ............................................................................. 271
About subdisks .......................................................................... 272
Creating subdisks ....................................................................... 272
Displaying subdisk information .................................................... 273
Moving subdisks ........................................................................ 274
Splitting subdisks ....................................................................... 274
Joining subdisks ......................................................................... 275
Associating subdisks with plexes ................................................... 275
Associating log subdisks .............................................................. 277
Dissociating subdisks from plexes ................................................. 278
Removing subdisks ..................................................................... 279
Changing subdisk attributes ......................................................... 279
About plexes .............................................................................. 280
Creating plexes .......................................................................... 281
Creating a striped plex ................................................................ 281
Displaying plex information ......................................................... 281
Plex states ........................................................................... 282
Plex condition flags .............................................................. 285
Plex kernel states ................................................................. 286
Attaching and associating plexes ................................................... 286
Taking plexes offline ................................................................... 287
Detaching plexes ........................................................................ 288
Reattaching plexes ..................................................................... 288
Automatic plex reattachment ................................................. 289
Moving plexes ............................................................................ 290
Copying volumes to plexes ........................................................... 291
Dissociating and removing plexes .................................................. 291
Changing plex attributes .............................................................. 292
Chapter 8 Creating volumes ............................................................... 295
About volume creation ................................................................ 296
Types of volume layouts .............................................................. 296
Supported volume logs and maps ............................................ 298
Creating a volume ....................................................................... 299
Advanced approach .............................................................. 299
Assisted approach ................................................................ 299
Using vxassist ............................................................................ 300
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