use with snapshots 66 fastresync attribute 251, 252, 293 file systems

growing using vxresize 285 shrinking using vxresize 285 unmounting 290

fire drill defined 432 testing 440

firmware upgrading 154

FMR. See FastResync foreign devices

adding 89 formatting disks 96

free space in disk groups 384 fullinst snapshot type 343 full-sized instant snapshots 307

creating 327

creating volumes for use as 323

G

GAB 410

global detach policy 405

Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast (GAB) 410

guidelines DRL 515 mirroring 514 RAID-5 516

H

hasdcolog attribute 293 HFS file systems

resizing 285 highwatermark attribute 322 host failures 442 hostnames

checking 455 hot-relocation

complete failure messages 384 configuration summary 385 daemon 380

defined 75

detecting disk failure 380 detecting plex failure 380 detecting RAID-5 subdisk failure 380 excluding free space on disks from use by 388

Index 539

limitations 381

making free space on disks available for use by 389

marking disks as spare 387 modifying behavior of 395 notifying users other than root 395 operation of 379

partial failure messages 383 preventing from running 395

reducing performance impact of recovery 395 removing disks from spare pool 388 Storage Expert rules 454

subdisk relocation 385

subdisk relocation messages 390 unrelocating subdisks 390 unrelocating subdisks using vxassist 392 unrelocating subdisks using vxdiskadm 391 unrelocating subdisks using vxunreloc 392 use of free space in disk groups 384

use of spare disks 384

use of spare disks and free space 384 using only spare disks for 390 vxrelocd 380

HP disk format 81 hpdisk format 81 HP-UX multipathing 77

I

I/O

gathering statistics for DMP 144 kernel threads 19

scheduling on secondary paths 151 throttling 128

use of statistics in performance tuning 469 using traces for performance tuning 472

I/O operations maximum size of 480

I/O policy displaying 147 example 151 specifying 147

I/O throttling 157 identifiers for tasks 267 idle LUNs 477

implicit failover mode 125 init attribute 260 initialization

default attributes 97 of disks 90, 97