Check category: Availability

Check description: Checks for status of Volume Manager volumes.

Check procedure:

• Identifies list of attached disks, disk groups, and volumes.

Check recommendation: Ensures that all Volume Manager volumes are in started state.

Check category: Availability

Check description: Check whether dirty bit is set on the New Technology File System(NTFS) volume.

Check procedure:

• Retrieves the state of each volume on the target systems.

Check recommendation: Volume has been marked dirty and will likely require to run chkdsk command.

Check category: Availability

Check description: Checks if the sub-components of a mirrored volume share the same hard disk.

Check procedure:

• Identifies any mirrored volumes present on the system.

Check recommendation: Make sure that sub-components of a mirrored volume do not share the same harddisk to prevent a single point of failure for a mirrored volume.

Check category: Performance

Check description: Checks if track alignment is enabled for all disks.

Check procedure:

• Uses the vxdisk list command to display all the connected disks on the system.

Check recommendation: If your storage is not optimally track-aligned,, I/O performance can be impacted. To enable track alignment, enter: vxdisk DynamicDiskGroupName set track align= enable | disable | yes | no offset=offset# vid=vendor id pid=product id | DiskName | p#c#t#l#