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

Table A-6
Creating volumes (continued)
DescriptionCommand
Creates a volume.
See “Creating a volume on any disk”
on page 304.
See “Creating a volume on specific
disks” on page 305.
Example:
# vxassist -b -g mydg make \
myvol 20g layout=concat \
mydg01 mydg02
vxassist -b [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length [layout=layout] \
[attributes]
Creates a mirrored volume.
See “Creating a mirrored volume”
on page 311.
Example:
# vxassist -b -g mydg make \
mymvol 20g layout=mirror \
nmirror=2
vxassist -b [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length layout=mirror \
[nmirror=N][attributes]
Creates a volume that may be opened
exclusively by a single node in a cluster.
See “Creating volumes with exclusive
open access by a node” on page 459.
Example:
# vxassist -b -g mysdg make \
mysmvol 20g layout=mirror \
exclusive=on
vxassist -b [-g diskgroup] make \
volume length layout=layout \
exclusive=on [attributes]
527Using Veritas Volume Manager commands
About Veritas Volume Manager commands