vxtask operations

The vxtask command supports the following operations:

abort

Stops the specified task. In most cases, the operations "back out" as if an I/O error occurred, reversing what has been done so far to the largest extent possible.

list

Displays a one-line summary for each task running on the system. The -l option prints tasks in long format. The -h option prints tasks hierarchically, with child tasks following the parent tasks. By default, all tasks running on the system are printed. If you include a taskid argument, the output is limited to those tasks whose taskid or task tag match taskid. The remaining arguments filter tasks and limit which ones are listed.

In this release, the vxtask list command supports SmartMove and thin reclamation operation.

  • If you use SmartMove to resync or sync the volume, plex, or subdisk, the vxtask list displays whether the operations is using SmartMove or not.

  • In a LUN level reclamation, the vxtask list command provides information on the amount of the reclaim performed on each LUN.

  • The init=zero on the thin volume may trigger the reclaim on the thin volume and the progress is seen in the vxtask list command.

monitor

Prints information continuously about a task or group of tasks as task information changes. This lets you track task progress. Specifying -l prints a long listing. By default, one-line listings are printed. In addition to printing task information when a task state changes, output is also generated when the task completes. When this occurs, the state of the task is printed as EXITED.

pause

Pauses a running task, causing it to suspend operation.

resume

Causes a paused task to continue operation.

set

Changes a task's modifiable parameters. Currently, there is only one modifiable parameter, slow[=iodelay] , which can be used to reduce the impact that copy operations have on system performance. If you specify slow, this introduces a delay between such operations with a default value for iodelay of 250 milliseconds. The larger iodelay value you specify, the slower the task progresses and the fewer system resources that it consumes in a given time. (The vxplex, vxvol and vxrecover commands also accept the slow attribute.)