Administering I/O fencing

The I/O fencing feature provides the following utilities that is available through the VRTSvxfen package:

vxfentsthdw 

Tests hardware for I/O fencing 

See About the vxfentsthdw utility 

vxfenconfig 

Configures and unconfigures I/O fencing 

Checks the list of coordinator disks used by the vxfen driver. 

vxfenadm 

Displays information on I/O fencing operations and manages SCSI-3 disk registrations and reservations for I/O fencing 

See About the vxfenadm utility 

vxfenclearpre 

Removes SCSI-3 registrations and reservations from disks 

See About the vxfenclearpre utility 

vxfenswap 

Replaces coordinator disks without stopping I/O fencing 

See About the vxfenswap utility 

vxfendisk 

Generates the list of paths of disks in the diskgroup. This utility requires that Veritas Volume Manager is installed and configured. 

Refer to the corresponding manual page for more information on the commands.