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

Setting default values for vxassist ........................................... 301
Using the SmartMove™ feature while attaching a plex ................ 303
Discovering the maximum size of a volume ..................................... 303
Disk group alignment constraints on volumes ................................. 304
Creating a volume on any disk ...................................................... 304
Creating a volume on specific disks ................................................ 305
Creating a volume on SSD devices ........................................... 306
Specifying ordered allocation of storage to volumes .................... 308
Creating a mirrored volume .......................................................... 311
Creating a mirrored-concatenated volume ................................ 312
Creating a concatenated-mirror volume .................................... 312
Creating a volume with a version 0 DCO volume ............................... 313
Creating a volume with a version 20 DCO volume ............................. 316
Creating a volume with dirty region logging enabled ......................... 316
Creating a striped volume ............................................................ 317
Creating a mirrored-stripe volume ........................................... 318
Creating a striped-mirror volume ............................................ 319
Mirroring across targets, controllers or enclosures ........................... 319
Mirroring across media types (SSD and HDD) .................................. 320
Creating a RAID-5 volume ............................................................ 321
Creating tagged volumes .............................................................. 322
Creating a volume using vxmake ................................................... 324
Creating a volume using a vxmake description file ...................... 325
Initializing and starting a volume .................................................. 326
Initializing and starting a volume created using vxmake .............. 327
Accessing a volume ..................................................................... 328
Using rules and persistent attributes to make volume allocation more
efficient .............................................................................. 328
Understanding persistent attributes ........................................ 329
Rule file format ................................................................... 330
Using rules to create a volume ................................................ 331
Using persistent attributes ..................................................... 332
Chapter 9 Administering volumes ..................................................... 335
About volume administration ....................................................... 336
Displaying volume information ..................................................... 336
Volume states ...................................................................... 338
Volume kernel states ............................................................. 339
Monitoring and controlling tasks .................................................. 340
Specifying task tags .............................................................. 340
Managing tasks with vxtask ................................................... 341
About SF Thin Reclamation feature ............................................... 343
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