VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2002)

Organization

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Organization

This guide is organized as follows:

◆ Understanding VERITAS Volume Manager

◆ Administering Disks

◆ Creating and Administering Disk Groups

◆ Creating and Administering Subdisks

◆ Creating and Administering Plexes

◆ Creating Volumes

◆ Administering Volumes

◆ Administering Hot-Relocation

◆ Administering Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)

◆ Administering Cluster Functionality

◆ Conﬁguring Off-Host Processing

◆ Performance Monitoring and Tuning

Using This Guide

This guide contains instructions for performing VxVM system administration tasks.

VxVM administration functions can be performed through one or more of the following

interfaces:

◆ a set of complex commands

◆ a single automated command (vxassist)

◆ a menu-driven interface (vxdiskadm)

◆ the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator

(graphical user interface)

This guide describes how to use the various VxVM command line interfaces for

administering VxVM. Details on how to use the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator can

be found in the VERITAS Volume Manager (UNIX) User’s Guide — VEA. Detailed

descriptions of the VxVM commands and utilities, their options, and details on their use

are located in the VxVM manual pages. Also see “Commands Summary” on page 301 for

a listing of the commonly used commands in VxVM together with references to their

descriptions.

Note Most VxVM commands require superuser or other appropriate privileges.