This section describes the command line interface (CLI) commands available with Storage Foundation. The key SFW commands can be executed from the command line as well as from the GUI.
The utilities are available in the product installation directory, typically C:\Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Volume Manager. You can run the commands from any directory in the command prompt window.
The available commands are the following:
vxvol
Displays volume information, repairs a RAID-5 or mirrored volume, turns Fast Resynchronization on and off, and reactivates a volume. See vxvol.
vxdg
Lets you create a dynamic disk group and perform other functions that are related to dynamic disk groups. See vxdg.
vxclus
Enables and disables the capability of forcing the import of a disk group on a cluster that is controlled by Microsoft Failover Clustering. The command also has keywords that allow the cluster disk group to reside on the same bus as the cluster node's system and boot disk. See vxclus.
vxclustadm
Enables you to start and stop a node in a Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) cluster, view the state of a node, and view the mapping and role (Master or Slave) information of the nodes. See vxclustadm.
vxdisk
Provides information on dynamic disks, lets you reactivate a dynamic disk, and enables track alignment for the disk. See vxdisk.
vxassist
Lets you create a dynamic volume and perform other operations that are related to dynamic volumes such as shrinking the size of the volume. See vxassist.
vxevac
Evacuates (moves) subdisks from the disk that is specified to a specified destination disk. See vxevac.
vxunreloc
Reverses the process of hot relocation. See vxunreloc.
vxsd
Provides commands for moving and splitting a subdisk and joining two subdisks. See vxsd.
vxstat
Provides commands for displaying statistics for disks, volumes, and subdisks. See vxstat.
vxtask
Provides commands for displaying percentage completion information, and for pausing and resuming the tasks. See vxtask.
vxedit
Provides commands to rename or add comments to a dynamic disk group, a disk, a volume, a plex, and a subdisk. See vxedit.
vxdmpadm
Provides commands for Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP DSMs). See vxdmpadm.
vxcbr
Provides commands for backing up and restore the Storage Foundation for Windows configuration information. See vxcbr.
vxsnap
Performs multiple snapshots simultaneously. The utility integrates with the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) as a VSS Requester. This allows for the simultaneous snapshot of all volumes that are associated with an Exchange Server database or an SQL Server database. See vxsnap.
vxfsync
Resynchronize a single file in a snapshotted volume back to the original volume. It is designed to restore one or more corrupt files in a database application that has volumes with multiple database files. See vxfsync.
vxscrub
Removes unneeded entries in the registry that are a result of adding and deleting volumes. The command is designed to shrink the size of the registry by purging the system hive. See vxscrub.
vxverify
Determines if there are any differences between plexes of mirrored volumes. See vxverify.
vxprint
Displays information about SFW and Volume Replicator objects. See vxprint.