10 Contents

 

 

 

Creating a concatenated-mirror volume ................................................

249

 

Creating a volume with a version 0 DCO volume .........................................

250

 

Creating a volume with a version 20 DCO volume .......................................

252

 

Creating a volume with dirty region logging enabled ..................................

252

 

Creating a striped volume ................................................................................

253

 

Creating a mirrored-stripe volume .........................................................

254

 

Creating a striped-mirror volume ...........................................................

254

 

Mirroring across targets, controllers or enclosures ....................................

255

 

Creating a RAID-5 volume ................................................................................

256

 

Creating tagged volumes ..................................................................................

257

 

Creating a volume using vxmake ....................................................................

258

 

Creating a volume using a vxmake description file .............................

259

 

Initializing and starting a volume ...................................................................

260

 

Initializing and starting a volume created using vxmake ...................

261

 

Accessing a volume ...........................................................................................

262

Chapter 8

Administering volumes

 

 

Displaying volume information ......................................................................

264

 

Volume states .............................................................................................

265

 

Volume kernel states .................................................................................

266

 

Monitoring and controlling tasks ...................................................................

267

 

Specifying task tags ...................................................................................

267

 

Managing tasks with vxtask .....................................................................

268

 

Stopping a volume .............................................................................................

270

 

Putting a volume in maintenance mode ................................................

270

 

Starting a volume ..............................................................................................

271

 

Adding a mirror to a volume ............................................................................

271

 

Mirroring all volumes ...............................................................................

272

 

Mirroring volumes on a VM disk .............................................................

272

 

Removing a mirror ............................................................................................

273

 

Adding logs and maps to volumes ...................................................................

274

 

Preparing a volume for DRL and instant snapshots ....................................

275

 

Specifying storage for version 20 DCO plexes ......................................

276

 

Using a DCO and DCO volume with a RAID-5 volume .........................

277

 

Determining the DCO version number ...................................................

277

 

Determining if DRL is enabled on a volume ..........................................

278

 

Determining if DRL logging is active on a volume ...............................

278

 

Disabling and re-enabling DRL ................................................................

278

 

Removing support for DRL and instant snapshots from a volume ...

279

 

Upgrading existing volumes to use version 20 DCOs ..................................

279

 

Adding traditional DRL logging to a mirrored volume ................................

281

 

Removing a traditional DRL log ..............................................................

282

 

Adding a RAID-5 log ..........................................................................................

283