Penoi’s Veritas Volume Manager Notes
Posted on August 11, 2008
This is my personal notes on Veritas Volume Manager. This page is a continuing notes of frequent commands that i use in VxVM
Initialization
Disk initialization
/usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxdisksetup -iv [device_tag][attributes]
Example:
#/usr/lib/vxvm/vxdisksetup -iv c2t0d0
Creation
Create initial disk group
vxdg init [diskgroup] [disk_name=device_tag]
Example:
#vxdg init newdg disk1=c2t0d0
Add more disk to the Disk Group
vxdg -g [disk_group] adddisk [disk_name=device_tag]
Example
#vxdg -g newdg adddisk disk2=c2t1d0
Volume Creation
Concatenated Volume
vxassist -g [disk group] make [volume_name] [size]
Example
#vxassist -g newdg make newvol 500m
Concatenated Volume by specifying the disk
# vxassist -g newdg make newvol disk02 disk03
Striped Volume
vxassist -g [disk group] make [volume_name] [length] layout=stripe ncol=n stripeunit=size
Example
#vxassist -g newdg make newvol 500m layout=stripe
Mirrored Volume
#vxassist -g newdg make newvol 500m layout=mirror
Viewing VxVM
View Disk Group disk info
#vxdisk -o alldgs list
View Sub disk
#vxprint -ls
View Plexes
#vxprint -lp
View Volumes
#vxprint -lv
Removing
–loading–
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