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Chapter 1 Understanding Veritas Volume Manager
How VxVM handles storage management
Implementation of non-layered volumes
Implementation of layered volumes
Striping plus mirroring (mirrored-stripe or RAID-0+1)
Mirroring plus striping (striped-mirror, RAID-1+0 or RAID-10)
Chapter 2 Administering disks
Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
Placing disks under VxVM control
Changing the disk-naming scheme
Regenerating persistent device names
Changing device naming for TPD-controlled enclosures
Discovering the association between enclosure-based disk names and OS-based disk names
Issues regarding simple or nopriv disks with enclosure-based naming
Installing and formatting disks
Displaying and changing default disk layout attributes
Chapter 3 Administering dynamic multipathing (DMP)
Disabling and enabling multipathing for specific devices
Enabling and disabling I/O for controllers and storage processors
Displaying DMP database information
Displaying the paths to a disk
Administering DMP using vxdmpadm
Retrieving information about a DMP node
Displaying the members of a LUN group
Displaying paths controlled by a DMP node, controller or array port
Displaying information about controllers
Displaying information about enclosures
Displaying information about array ports
Displaying information about TPD-controlled devices
Gathering and displaying I/O statistics
Setting the attributes of the paths to an enclosure
Disabling I/O for paths, controllers or array ports
Enabling I/O for paths, controllers or array ports
Upgrading disk controller firmware
Configuring the response to I/O failures
Configuring the I/O throttling mechanism
Displaying recoveryoption values
Configuring DMP path restoration policies
Stopping the DMP path restoration thread
Displaying the status of the DMP path restoration thread
Chapter 4 Creating and administering disk groups
Specifying a disk group to commands
Displaying disk group information
Removing a disk from a disk group
Handling disks with duplicated identifiers
Moving disks between disk groups
Moving disk groups between systems
Handling conflicting configuration copies
Reorganizing the contents of disk groups
Limitations of disk group split and join
Listing objects potentially affected by a move
Managing the configuration daemon in VxVM
Chapter 5 Creating and administering subdisks
Chapter 6 Creating and administering plexes
Chapter 7 Creating volumes
Discovering the maximum size of a volume
Disk group alignment constraints on volumes
Creating a volume on specific disks
Creating a volume with a version 0 DCO volume
Creating a volume with a version 20 DCO volume
Creating a volume with dirty region logging enabled
Mirroring across targets, controllers or enclosures
Creating a volume using vxmake
Chapter 8 Administering volumes
Monitoring and controlling tasks
Adding logs and maps to volumes
Preparing a volume for DRL and instant snapshots
Specifying storage for version 20 DCO plexes
Using a DCO and DCO volume with a RAID-5 volume
Determining the DCO version number
Determining if DRL is enabled on a volume
Determining if DRL logging is active on a volume
Removing support for DRL and instant snapshots from a volume
Upgrading existing volumes to use version 20 DCOs
Adding traditional DRL logging to a mirrored volume
Changing the read policy for mirrored volumes
Chapter 9 Administering volume snapshots
Traditional third-mirror break-off snapshots
Space-optimized instant snapshots
Emulation of third-mirror break-off snapshots
Linked break-off snapshot volumes
Restoring the original volume from a snapshot
Preparing to create instant and break-off snapshots
Creating and managing space-optimized instant snapshots
Creating and managing full-sized instant snapshots
Creating and managing third-mirror break-off snapshots
Creating and managing linked break-off snapshot volumes
Creating multiple instant snapshots
Creating instant snapshots of volume sets
Adding snapshot mirrors to a volume
Removing a linked break-off snapshot volume
Adding a snapshot to a cascaded snapshot hierarchy
Refreshing an instant snapshot
Reattaching an instant snapshot
Reattaching a linked break-off snapshot volume
Restoring a volume from an instant snapshot
Dissociating an instant snapshot
Splitting an instant snapshot hierarchy
Displaying instant snapshot information
Controlling instant snapshot synchronization
Listing the snapshots created on a cache
Chapter 10 Creating and administering volume sets
Adding a volume to a volume set
Listing details of volume sets
Stopping and starting volume sets
Chapter 11 Configuring off-host processing
Chapter 12 Administering hot-relocation
Configuring a system for hot-relocation
Displaying spare disk information
Marking a disk as a hot-relocation spare
Removing a disk from use as a hot-relocation spare
Excluding a disk from hot-relocation use
Making a disk available for hot-relocation use
Configuring hot-relocation to use only spare disks
Chapter 13 Administering cluster functionality
Overview of cluster volume management
Private and shared disk groups
Activation modes of shared disk groups
Connectivity policy of shared disk groups
Cluster initialization and configuration
Dirty region logging in cluster environments
Multiple host failover configurations
Administering VxVM in cluster environments
Requesting node status and discovering the master node
Determining if a disk is shareable
Forcibly adding a disk to a disk group
Importing disk groups as shared
Converting a disk group from shared to private
Moving objects between disk groups
Changing the activation mode on a shared disk group
Setting the disk detach policy on a shared disk group
Setting the disk group failure policy on a shared disk group
Creating volumes with exclusive open access by a node
Setting exclusive open access to a volume by a node
Displaying the cluster protocol version
Displaying the supported cluster protocol version range
Upgrading the cluster protocol version
Chapter 14 Administering
sites and remote mirrors
Configuring sites for hosts and disks
Configuring site-based allocation on a disk group
Configuring site consistency on a disk group
Configuring site consistency on a volume
Setting the siteread policy on a volume
Site-based allocation of storage to volumes
Making an existing disk group site consistent
Chapter 15 Performance monitoring and tuning
Appendix A Commands summary
Appendix B Configuring Veritas Volume Manager