Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)
Administering
hot-relocation
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About hot-relocation
■ How hot-relocation works
■ Configuring a system for hot-relocation
■ Displaying spare disk information
■ Marking a disk as a hot-relocation spare
■ Removing a disk from use as a hot-relocation spare
■ Excluding a disk from hot-relocation use
■ Making a disk available for hot-relocation use
■ Configuring hot-relocation to use only spare disks
■ Moving relocated subdisks
■ Modifying the behavior of hot-relocation
About hot-relocation
If a volume has a disk I/O failure (for example, the disk has an uncorrectable error),
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) can detach the plex involved in the failure. I/O
stops on that plex but continues on the remaining plexes of the volume.
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