VxVM uses subdisks to build virtual objects called plexes. A plex consists of one or more subdisks located on one or more physical disks.
Figure: Example of a plex with two subdisks shows an example of a plex with two subdisks.
You can organize data on subdisks to form a plex by using the following methods:
concatenation
striping (RAID-0)
mirroring (RAID-1)
striping with parity (RAID-5)
Concatenation, striping (RAID-0), mirroring (RAID-1) and RAID-5 are types of volume layout.
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