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Advanced approach

The advanced approach consists of a number of commands that typically require you to specify detailed input. These commands use a "building block" approach that requires you to have a detailed knowledge of the underlying structure and components to manually perform the commands necessary to accomplish a certain task. Advanced operations are performed using several different VxVM commands.

 To create a volume using the advanced approach

1. Create subdisks using vxmake sd; see Creating subdisks.
2. Create plexes using vxmake plex, and associate subdisks with them; see Creating plexes, Associating subdisks with plexes and Creating a volume using vxmake.
3. Associate plexes with the volume using vxmake vol; see Creating a volume using vxmake.
4. Initialize the volume using vxvol start or vxvol init zero; see Initializing and starting a volume created using vxmake.

See Creating a volume using a vxmake description file for an example of how you can combine steps 1 through 3 using a volume description file with vxmake.

See Creating a volume using vxmake for an example of how to perform steps 2 and 3 to create a RAID-5 volume.