542 Index

plex attribute 234 renaming disks 119 subdisk 29 subdisk attribute 221 VM disk 29 volume 31

naming scheme changing for disks 91

changing for TPD enclosures 94 for disk devices 78

native multipathing 77, 130 ncachemirror attribute 325 ndcomirror attribute 251, 252, 357 ndcomirs attribute 275, 321 NEEDSYNC volume state 266 newvol attribute 330

nmirror attribute 329, 330 NODAREC plex condition 228 nodes

DMP 126

in clusters 399

maximum number in a cluster 397 node abort in clusters 417 requesting status of 420 shutdown in clusters 416

use of vxclustadm to control cluster functionality 411

NODEVICE plex condition 228 nodg 167

nomanual path attribute 146 non-autotrespass mode 126 non-layered volume conversion 300 Non-Persistent FastResync 67 nopreferred path attribute 146 nopriv disk type 80

nopriv disks

issues with enclosures 94

O

objects physical 20 virtual 26

off-host processing 369, 397 OFFLINE plex state 226 online backups

implementing 371 online invalid status 120 online relayout

changing number of columns 298

changing region size 299 changing speed of 299 changing stripe unit size 298 combining with conversion 300 controlling progress of 299 defined 54

destination layouts 294 failure recovery 58 how it works 54 limitations 57 monitoring tasks for 299 pausing 299 performing 294 resuming 299 reversing direction of 300 specifying non-default 298 specifying plexes 298 specifying task tags for 298 temporary area 54 transformation characteristics 58 transformations and volume length 58 types of transformation 295 viewing status of 299

online status 120

ordered allocation 245, 251, 257 OTHER_DISKS category 83 overlapped seeks 514

P

parity in RAID-5 46 partial device discovery 82 partition size

displaying the value of 147 specifying 148

path aging 476

path failover in DMP 128 pathgroups

creating 134 paths

disabling for DMP 153 enabling for DMP 154 setting attributes of 146

performance analyzing data 469

benefits of using VxVM 463 changing values of tunables 474 combining mirroring and striping 465 effect of read policies 466 examining ratio of reads to writes 471