Administrator Guide

Table Of Contents
Managing spares............................................................................................................................................................... 90
Global spares................................................................................................................................................................ 90
Dedicated spares..........................................................................................................................................................91
Create a volume................................................................................................................................................................. 91
Changing pool settings..................................................................................................................................................... 91
Verifying and scrubbing disk groups.............................................................................................................................92
Verify a disk group...................................................................................................................................................... 92
Scrubbing a disk group...............................................................................................................................................93
Removing a disk group from quarantine......................................................................................................................94
Remove a disk group from quarantine................................................................................................................... 95
Chapter 6: Working in the Volumes topic.....................................................................................96
Viewing volumes................................................................................................................................................................96
Volumes table in the Volumes topic........................................................................................................................96
Snapshots table in the Volumes topic.................................................................................................................... 97
Maps table in the Volumes topic..............................................................................................................................97
Replication Sets table in the Volumes topic ........................................................................................................ 98
Schedules table in the Volumes topic.....................................................................................................................98
Creating a virtual volume................................................................................................................................................ 99
Create virtual volumes............................................................................................................................................... 99
Creating a linear volume................................................................................................................................................ 100
Create linear volumes............................................................................................................................................... 100
Modifying a volume..........................................................................................................................................................101
Modify a volume..........................................................................................................................................................101
Copying a volume or snapshot...................................................................................................................................... 101
Copy a virtual volume or snapshot........................................................................................................................ 102
Abort a volume copy....................................................................................................................................................... 102
Adding volumes to a volume group............................................................................................................................. 102
Add volumes to a volume group............................................................................................................................. 102
Removing volumes from a volume group...................................................................................................................103
Remove volumes from a volume group................................................................................................................ 103
Renaming a volume group............................................................................................................................................. 103
Rename a volume group...........................................................................................................................................103
Remove volume groups..................................................................................................................................................103
Remove volume groups only................................................................................................................................... 103
Remove volume groups and their volumes..........................................................................................................103
Rolling back a virtual volume.........................................................................................................................................104
Roll back a volume..................................................................................................................................................... 104
Deleting volumes and snapshots..................................................................................................................................104
Delete volumes and snapshots............................................................................................................................... 105
Creating snapshots......................................................................................................................................................... 105
Create virtual snapshots.......................................................................................................................................... 105
Resetting a snapshot...................................................................................................................................................... 106
Reset a snapshot....................................................................................................................................................... 106
Creating a replication set from the Volumes topic..................................................................................................106
Primary volumes and volume groups.....................................................................................................................107
Secondary volumes and volume groups............................................................................................................... 107
Queuing replications.................................................................................................................................................. 107
Maintaining replication snapshot history from the Volumes topic.................................................................107
Initiating or scheduling a replication from the Volumes topic...............................................................................109
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