Volume sets enable the use of the Multi-Volume Support and Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) features with Veritas File System (VxFS). It is also possible to use the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) to create and administer volumes sets. For more information, see the VEA online help.
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) provides the vxvset
command to create and administer volume sets.
See the vxvset(1M) manual page.
Note Most VxVM commands require superuser or equivalent privileges.
Please note the following limitation of volume sets:
See "Raw device node access to component volumes" on page 368.
vxsnap
operations on instant snapshots: addmir
, dis
, make
, prepare
, reattach
, refresh
, restore
, rmmir
, split
, syncpause
, syncresume
, syncstart
, syncstop
, syncwait
, and unprepare
. The third-mirror break-off usage model for full-sized instant snapshots is supported for volume sets provided that sufficient plexes exist for each volume in the volume set.
See "Administering volume snapshots" on page 311.
See "Creating instant snapshots of volume sets" on page 340.